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Leeds criminology student bantered on Facebook about lie

Sophie Pointon, 22, whose dream was to become a police officer, falsely claimed she had been groped in the back of the cab after a night out in Leeds and has been jailed for 16 months.




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Hull 'paedophile' is snared by vigilantes in Leeds

The man, from Hull, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was caught after allegedly arranging to meet up with the 'girl' in Leeds only to be confronted by members of The Innocence Keepers.




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Anti-Semitic graffiti daubed at Leeds synagogue

Police are treating the abuse as hate crime the anti-Semitic messages after it was discovered at Etz Chaim synagogue, in Leeds, West Yorkshire.




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Four-year-old Garforth girl wants to be a football referee

The father of four-year-old Clara shared an image of his daughter watching an assistant female referee on the pitch at a local football match in Leeds. Nathan told his followers she wanted to be a ref.




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Leeds boy told classmate he wanted to kill teacher

Will Cornick, then 15, knifed Spanish teacher Ann Maguire, 61, during a lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds three years ago.




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Michael O'Hare launches foul-mouthed rant at customer

Russell Whish booked a year in advance to eat at The Man Behind the Curtain, in Leeds, but when he complained Chef Michael O'Hare (pictured) responded by comparing himself to Led Zeppelin.




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40 terminally-ill children have annual Santa flight axed

Jet2 axed the trip for children and carers from Martin House Children's Hospice in Wetherby claiming they had not been told the level of medical care the children would need.




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Axeman wanted by police in Leeds' student area

Armed police are searching for an axeman in Leeds' student district and members of the public have been warned not to approach him.




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Davina McCall says she wants to repay debt to NHS A&E heroes

TV presenter Davina McCall will report live from NHS front lines in Leeds in a new ITV special. She revealed her inspiration was the care her family received during her older sister's cancer diagnosis.




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Leeds man's anger at ant which lived inside his computer screen

Ian Ossia, of Leeds, saw the creature marching around inside the monitor of the Apple MacBook Pro after he bought it for £5,000 in March.




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La Liga title race nobody wants to win?: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico, Sevilla and Real Sociedad

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: After 12 La Liga games there are just five points between the top 13 teams. The usual suspects are up there, but things just don't seem to be clicking at all. Sportsmail examines.




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Comedian John Bishop wants the Grand National banned but used to own a racehorse

The animal lover said he is not against the sport but has changed his perspective on the historic race because of the number of horses which have died in the race.




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ICE issues list of nine 'fugitive' illegal immigrants released by NYC's city sanctuary policy

'Dangerous criminals are being released every single day', an ICE spokesman said. Sanctuary cities like NYC limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.




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Downing Street hints it will drop post-Brexit migrant salary threshold

Downing Street today gave a strong hint a government plan to impose a minimum earnings threshold on migrants who want to come to the UK after Brexit will be dropped.




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More than 200 Central American migrants escape from detention facility in Mexico

Mexican authorities recaptured 100 of more than 200 that fled an immigration station on Monday in southern Mexico as hundreds more remained stuck on the Suchiate River's shore.




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Tory backlash over Boris Johnson's plan to ditch £30,000 minimum earnings threshold for migrants

Boris Johnson's plan to scrap a minimum earnings threshold for migrants who want to move to the UK after Brexit has sparked a backlash among Tory MPs.




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Priti Patel attacks UK business for being 'far too reliant' on 'cheap labour' from the EU

Priti Patel today launched a savage attack on big British business as she said companies had become 'far too reliant on low skilled' and 'cheap' workers from the EU.




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Jennifer Lopez makes poignant comment about immigrant children in cages as she is joined by daughter

Sunday's performance featured a surprise appearance from J.Lo's daughter toward the end of the show, singing Let's Get Loud as she sat in a round cage, surrounded by other children in cages.




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ICE asks judge to force NYC to share information about illegal immigrant

The court filing on Monday accuses Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration of ignoring subpoenas from Immigration and Customs Enforcement demanding information about Reeaz Khan.




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Gang of 33 illegal immigrants are caught in a lorry at Calais trying to FLEE the UK

The 33 illegal immigrants were found on Monday hiding in a lorry in Calais, France by shocked border force guards after clambering aboard at Dover. Many have now been returned to the UK.




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Teacher 'told Hispanic student to 'go back to her country' for not standing during national anthem

A Hispanic student, who is a US citizen, says she was told by a teacher in Chicago to go back her country because she wouldn't stand during the national anthem at an assembly at her school.




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EU migrants will have to earn at least £23,000 before they are allowed into Britain

Migrants will also earn 'points' for how well they speak English. In some cases migrants taking jobs paying as little as £23,000 could be granted visas, depending on their skills.




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Sajid Javid stoked tensions by pushing for extension for unskilled EU migrants to come to Britain 

The chancellor insisted the UK's new border system would not be ready by December. Relations between No 10 and No 11 were stretched by the proposed extension.




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CBP arrest driver after finding 26 illegal immigrants hiding inside tractor-trailer in California 

Customs and Border Patrol agents have arrested a 32-year-old man from Mexico who was caught smuggling 26 illegal immigrants into the country Wednesday via a tractor-trailer in California.




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Romanian immigrant who once drove for Trump is still in ICE custody a year later

Zoltan Tamas (pictured), an immigrant from Romania who once drove for President Donald Trump is still being detained by ICE a year after he was given a deportation reprieve.




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Farmers warn food prices could rise under new plans to keep low-skilled migrants out of the UK

Leaders in agriculture, hospitality and the care system lashed out at the Home Secretary after she dismissed fears over staff shortages caused by the proposed points-based system.




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Jobs bonanza for Australians wanting work in UK as new immigration laws will favour English speakers

New post-Brexit immigration laws in the UK will favour skilled English-speaking migrant workers over cheap unskilled labour from within the European Union.




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Illegal immigrants at high schools arrested for raping girls in US

Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, 20, and Ivan Reyes Lopez, 19, were arrested earlier this month for allegedly raping two different 11-year-old girls in Montgomery County, Maryland.




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Pregnant mom is detained by ICE agents just moments after dropping her daughter off at pre-school 

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who is three months pregnant, was briefly detained by ICE last week in Philadelphia moments after leaving her four-year-old daughter at a school.




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ICE gives pregnant mom detained near daughter's school 45 days to self-deport to El Salvador

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who has been in the U.S. since 2011, was given 45 days to self-deport to El Salvador after being detained by federal agents outside of her daughter's school.




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ICE arrests illegal immigrant after NYPD releases him after charging him with child rape 

Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday after originally being arrested in New York last Thursday. NYPD released him despite ICE detainer.




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New York ICE officials accused of rigging algorithms to detain immigrants in detention centers 

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against ICE claiming New York officers rigged algorithms to always recommend people arrested for immigration violations be detained.




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Video shows ICE agents pin illegal immigrant to the ground after using pepper spray on her

Maria De Los Angel Sanz Pimentel, a Dominican woman who is allegedly in the United States without a work visa, was taken into custody by several ICE agents after a raid in Brooklyn on March 1.




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Former British Army sergeant is stuck in Fiji and being prevented from returning to his wife

Ilaitia Cokanasiga, 48, from Fiji, said he felt 'immense pride' to have served with the UK armed forces but now feels 'betrayed' after he was let down by the government.




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Rishi Sunak uses Budget to hike cost for migrants to use the NHS

Rishi Sunak today announced he is hiking the amount it costs migrants to use the NHS as the government's spending watchdog predicted net migration could fall to 129,000.




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Coronavirus UK: Migrants in face masks cross Channel in dinghy

Migrants wearing facemasks were pictured arriving at Dover after crossing the English Channel in a large rubber dingy today.




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ICE STOP most undocumented immigrant arrests due to coronavirus

Immigration officials said it will delay the majority of its arrests of illegal immigrants due to the coronavirus pandemic except for those who pose a risk or have committed serious criminal acts.




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Illegal migrants given coronavirus tests in Dover as 169 people found trying to cross the Channel

It is understood the migrants were taken into the Port of Dover before being handed over to immigration officers, after being tested for coronavirus.




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Immigrants held at ICE detention facility in Georgia go on hunger strike over coronavirus concerns

More than 350 undocumented immigrants detained by ICE have gone on a hunger strike at a privately-operated jail in Georgia over fears of a possible coronavirus outbrea.




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Arizona CBP agents find two migrants in a car trunk and send them back across the Mexico border

CBP agents detained and quickly deported two Honduran migrants who were found hiding in the trunk of a car that was stopped Sunday near Gila Bend, Arizona.




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ICE to release 693 undocumented immigrants from overcrowded detention centers

The decision comes on the heel of mounting pressure from Democrats and pro-immigrant groups who have demanded the mass liberation of more than 34,000 incarcerated.




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CBP finds 28 undocumented immigrants lying on top of each other inside a trailer in Texas

CBP agents detained 28 migrants from Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico during the search of a tractor trailer on Monday in Texas. The driver, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody.




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Man is charged over plot to smuggle immigrants into UK after 39 migrants were found dead in a lorry

Gazmir Nuzi, of Tottenham, London, has been charged with an immigration offence in connection with the investigation into the deaths of 39 migrants in a lorry, found in Essex.




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Man charged with manslaughter in connection with deaths of 39 migrants found in lorry in Essex 

Ronan Hughes, of Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, is due to appear at Dublin's High Court on Tuesday charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, as well as immigration offences.




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Migrant detainees cry for help during hunger strike over COVID-19 fears at an ICE detention center

The alleged incident took place at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-run Otay Mesa Detention Center in Otay Mesa, California, on April 10.




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Extradition hearing begins for man arrested in Dublin over manslaughter of Vietnamese immigrants

Ronan Hughes, 40, from Silverstream, Tyholland in Co Monaghan, was detained on Monday following the execution of a European arrest warrant in the Irish Republic.




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Priti Patel signals fresh crackdown on illegal migrants crossing English Channel

Priti Patel today signalled a fresh crackdown on illegal migrants crossing the English Channel as she also vowed to tackle 'vexatious' asylum claims.




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Denmark's immigration ministry declares it 'wonderful' more migrants left than entered in 2019

It was the first time since 2011 that net migration - the difference between immigration and emigration - was negative. The main groups who left last year were Somalis, Syrians and Iraqis.




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CBP officers discover 36 undocumented immigrants inside a tractor trailer in Texas

Border Patrol agents in found 36 unlawful migrants inside a truck during a road checkpoint on Interstate 35 last Thursday in Laredo, Texas.




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Mexican man has spent the last 18 months at an ICE detention center after asylum request was granted

Francisco Morales Torres has been under the custody of ICE for 18 months at a detention facility in Wisconsin following a Chicago judge's decision to grant his asylum petition.