2011 stowaway news

Archive stowaway news and reports

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December

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• Immigration expected to fall due to UK economic downturn
• 200 illegal immigrants repatriated by GIS
• Illegals found hidden among barrels of fruit
• 40 Haitians die in ship accident
• UK immigration target will not be met, IPPR warns
• The 74 illegal immigrants who should have been sent home
• Illegal Immigrants Found in Freezer Lorry
• Stowaway attempts to board Barcelona plane bound for Japan
• Number seeking asylum in Republic of Ireland drops
• Ireland, Britain to crack down on illegal immigrants
• 37 Pak nationals killed in Indonesian ship tragedy
• Stowaway Arrested on BNSF Train in Burleigh County

November

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• IMO Assembly Adopts Wide Range of Resolutions
• Behind the scenes with UK Border Agency staff at the Port of Dover
• Immigration union claims airport strike security lapse
• 28 Illegal Somali and Ethiopian Immigrants Held in Voi
• Police chief says airport security is tighter 1 year after stowaway incident
• Hull MP Johnson slams Border Agency pilot that saw port's passport checks relaxed
• Head of UK border force Brodie Clark suspended
• Court awards £17,000 to detained illegal immigrant
• 94 Illegal Ethiopian Immigrants Held in Taita
• Two Liverpool taxi drivers arrested on suspicion of human trafficking
• Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, Airplane Stowaway, To Be Freed On 'Supervised Release'
• Over 2.3 million illegal immigrants register within 45 days

October

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• Airport worker guilty of smuggling disguised people to Vancouver
• Foreign haulier caught with largest ever stowaway find
• Authorities remove crew from seized vessel
• 7 immigrants killed after boat sank off West Java
• Thousands of foreign criminals still in UK despite deportation orders
• Stowaways found in lorries at ferry port
• Crew of pirate fishing vessel seized off Alaska faces deportation
• China and N.K. refugees (Editorial)
• 111 Immigrants sent back to Haiti
• Use of busing system to deter returning illegal immigrants increases

September

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• Stowaway cases on the rise at Takoradi Port
• Stowaways found aboard tanker at TC port
• Six Afghan stowaways found on lorry bound for Rochdale
• Caribbean a magnet for illegal immigrants, says EU official
• Afghan stowaways in Wellington-bound lorry
• South Korea temporarily blocks Vietnamese migrants
• Top dog Sam on the scent of stowaways
• Another severed human foot washes up on Canadian shore making a total of 12 in four years
• Moroccan stowaway to make refugee claim

August

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• Border control discovers nine stowaways heading for Dorset
• New campaign to protect drivers from criminals and stowaways
• Eritrean stowaways found in Huddersfield-bound lorry
• China police seize stowaways, snakeheads
• US ports spend big on post-9/11 security
• Boat carrying 18 Vietnamese stowaways intercepted off southern Taiwan
• Lorry driver jailed for smuggling 16 illegal immigrants
• Border Agency swoops of stowaways bound for Ringwood
• Stowaways removed from train
• Stowaways captured

July

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• Six stowaways found in Calais lorry
• Stowaway, Insurance Scam Issues Surround Oil Tanker Which Ran Aground
• Canada talks human smuggling in New Zealand and Thailand
• Sniffer dog finds stowaways in lorry bound for Broxburn
• Italy: 25 immigrants smothered onboard ship
• New campaign to protect drivers from criminals and stowaways
• Dead Cuban Stowaway Found in Iberia Plane Landing Gear
• Union protests over Maritime Bill
• Stowaways found in Bicester-bound lorry
• Sri Lanka Foreign Minister addresses issue of illegal immigration
• Man tried to smuggle drugs through Bristol Airport

June

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• Illegal immigrants found hidden on lorries in Ramsgate
• A Takoradi Circuit Court remands 13 stowaways
• Stowaways found at Port of Hull in back of a van
• Sniffer dog uncovers eight stowaways in Staffordshire-bound lorry
• Nine stowaways found in van go back to Holland
• Britain, France talk migrants, Olympic security
• Stowaways discovered in Greater Manchester-bound lorries
• Two illegal immigrants found clinging to lorry axles
• Illegal immigrants stopped before reaching Uttoxeter
• Woman nabbed with stowaway sentenced in Maine

May

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• Africa stowaways caught in lorry border search
• Immigrant stowaways arrested after hiding in lorry full of tyres bound for Britain
• Stowaways found on world's most luxurious cruise
• Smuggling Migrants In Freight Trucks Hits A New Low (or High)
• 10 illegal immigrants nabbed in Pingtung County
• Port security, cooperation heightened
• Dominican Republic stowaways ordered deported
• Malaysia searches for 13 missing Indonesian illegal immigrants
• Criminal immigrant to be paid damages
• 'Iraqi Insurgent' stowaway lived in N.J. warehouse

April

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• Report On North Carolina Stowaway Raises More Flight Security Concerns
• EU warned against changing Schengen deal on borders
• Sarkozy-Berlusconi: A border control farce
• Immigrants bound for Hadleigh
• Illegals 'given visas for bribes'
• Fears About Immigrants Deepen Divisions in Europe
• French Police raid on Arab migrants 'could drive them to Britain'
• Illegal immigrant stowaway drama

March

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• Stowaways tear NPA, terminal operators, NIMASA apart
• Five stowaways found in lorry bound for Daventry
• 3 Chinese stowaways found in PAL plane
• Halesowen-bound stowaways caught at border
• European Union raps France over immigration 'Non'
• Eritrean stoways caught in Redditch-bound lorry
• Italians block port in protest over migrants
• Nine stowaways found in British chemical lorry
• Would-be illegal immigrants stopped
• Italian court threat to lorry driver for 1999 incident

February

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• 17 stowaways lucky not to have frozen to death in London-bound lorry
• Number of Korean Stowaways to Japan Over 500 Since 2007
• UK border chiefs nab stowaways amid apples
• Two stowaways in Halifax to be held in custody
• Nova Scotia stowaways were from Morocco, Western Sahara
• Three detained after attempt to enter UK on lorry heading for Somerset
• Sri Lankan stowaways caught in Redditch-bound lorry are deported
• Six Dominican stowaways rescued at sea
• Illegal immigrants hide in Rolls-Royces

January

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• Stowaways hiding on paper lorry heading to Flint
• Sniffer dog finds stowaways bound for Leicester
• Stowaways from Kuwait found in lorry at Harwich
• Stowaways discovered on a lorry heading for Redditch
• Lawyer: Airport to blame in North Carolina stowaway’s death
• New Tilt Cord Can Prevent Cargo Theft And Stowaways Hiding In Freight Trucks
• Report on stowaway’s death sent to president
• Soup stowaways found heading to Cannock
• Stowaways found in storage container
• Tap Freight pilots anti-stowaways truck device

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