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The Home Secretary of Great Britain, Suella Braverman, has warned of a new wave of Albanian immigrants who will cross the English Channel this summer, despite being stopped by the British police.
Braverman has been handed an internal study, carried out by the United Kingdom embassy in Tirana, which shows that half of young Albanians want to cross the English Channel to Britain this summer.
The survey is based on 1,800 families from Kukësi, the main area in northern Albania, and the data showed that half of young people aged 17 to 22 wanted to leave their homeland and go to Great Britain despite the dangers of crossing the channel.
The discovery underscores the seasonal nature of illegal migration by Albanians.
It comes after Rishi Sunak and Ms Braverman hailed a 90 per cent drop in the number of Albanians arriving in small boats so far this year as evidence that their crackdown on small boat emigration was working.
The numbers have fallen from 2,165 in January-June 2022, to 151 in the first five months of 2023.
Braverman told MPs that the government was "not complacent" despite the drop in numbers and would continue to monitor Albanian crossings.
The Home Office has stepped up its crackdown on Albanians in the past two months, setting up a 400-strong unit to fast-track around 17,000 asylum applications. The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sunak, revealed on Monday that the number of Albanians seeking asylum had dropped from almost one in five (17 percent) to two percent.
Ministers are also targeting a further 20,000 Albanians who have entered the UK illegally, although they admit that 70 to 80 per cent may have escaped on immigration parole.
They have also tightened rules on modern slavery amid allegations that it was used by Albanian migrants to avoid deportation.
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