UK Urging Allies to Sanction People Smuggling Groups
The U.K. is urging allies to use sanctions to target people smugglers and organized immigration crime gangs, the country’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said last week. It said Foreign Secretary David Lammy planned to speak with partners about the sanctions at the recent Munich Security Conference, including asking them to “replicate Britain’s world-first plans for a sanctions regime aimed squarely at organised immigration crime gangs and their networks.”
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Sanctions on those groups will help “starve them of illicit finance fuelling their operations,” the U.K. said. Lammy called them a “national security threat” across Europe. “We must deliver on our mandate to smash the gangs” and “secure this country’s borders,” he said.