ONLINE clips glorifying channel crossings is to finally be made a crime, The Sun can reveal.
Labour’s latest bid to stop small boats creates an offence specifically banning the promotion of illegal migration.
The new law comes after we revealed videos of asylum seekers brazenly boasting of their taxpayer-funded hotels on TikTok.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is under growing pressure to slash boat numbers amid a record first half of the year.
She is expected to make a last-minute amendment to her Borders Bill to crack down on the practice.
The UK-wide offence would criminalise the creating, publishing or posting of online material that promotes or facilitates a breach of immigration law — such as Channel crossings.
Smuggling gangs routinely advertise their warped services on social media.
While facilitating illegal migration is already a crime, the threshold for prosecution for online advertising under existing laws is so high not one has ever been brought.
It comes ahead of a high-stakes summit between Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron in London.
The PM and French President are expected to agree a “one in, one out” deal to return illegal migrants.
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