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ATHENS (Reuters)- Greece opened its first purpose - built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

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ROME (AP)-- Italian authorities detained 38 people in a crackdown on a migrant trafficking ring that used a Rome cosmetics shop as a base for illegal financial transactions, officials said Monday.

In 144 «commitments» published on Saturday, Le Pen says she would drastically curb migration, expel all illegal migrants and reserve certain rights now available to all residents, including free education, to French citizens only.

On some occasions locals refer to migrants and refugees by the pejorative «clandestini» or «illegals.»

Republicans are divided on how to confront illegal immigration between a platform that allows for migrant workers and a path to citizenship (supported by establishment types), versus a position focused on securing the border and deporting illegal immigrants (supported by populists).

A leading union official has called for a debate on the possible amnesty of half a million illegal migrant workers.

The issue of illegal immigration dogged the government this week after it emerged five illegal migrants from Nigeria had worked as cleaners at the Home Office for three years, contrary to initial claims that they were nabbed on their first day.

The Conservative leader offered a comprehensive defence of his party's approach to immigration in his speech, arguing that the coalition was on the right track in tackling student immigration from outside Europe, illegal immigration and reforming the points system for migrant workers.

And whilst poorly worded and tasteless ad vans were touring London begging illegal immigrants to hand themselves in, we learnt that the Home Office has not been finger - printing migrants stopped at Calais or Coquelles for three years and has not followed up 90 % of its intelligence leads on illegal immigration.

We need to make it easier to bring prosecutions; Labour will double the fines for minimum wage breaches and for illegal employment of illegal migrants; And because local authorities are far better at knowing what is going on locally, we will give them the power to enforce the minimum wage.

The home secretary insisted that the focus instead must be on targeting and stopping the people - smugglers behind the trade across the Mediterranean, including establishing «a more effective process of returning illegal migrants».

The Windrush scandal exploded when it emerged a number of Caribbean migrants who arrived between the 1940s and 1970s were wrongly declared illegal as the Tories sought to crack down on unlawful immigration.

She also avoided censure for sending out the «Go Home» vans in 2014 to round up illegal migrants — a total of 11 left the country — and only reintroduced exit checks on those leaving the country in April 2015 after sustained pressure from the Liberal Democrats, despite it being promised in 2010.

Find out more about the measures being introduced by the government to tackle illegal working and how your business can prevent the exploitation of migrant workers at the CIOB's annual conference on 24 November, 2015 in London.

Immigration Enforcement, an agency of the Home Office, is responsible for tracking down illegal migrants, including those who have sneaked into Britain in the backs of lorries, arrived on visas but never went home and failed asylum seekers who have avoided deportation.

Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire left the cabinet in January after standing down on health grounds, and Mrs Rudd became the fifth cabinet member to leave amid claims she misled Parliament over targets for removing illegal migrants.

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr last week, the business secretary dismissed the proposed 75,000 cap on EU migrants as «illegal», making reference to Enoch Powell in his assessment of Cameron's populist style of politics.

His previous works include «Kiss of Love 2009», an installation produced from various paraphenalia that resulted from exchanging his clothes with homeless people, and «Drobne / 2010 Small Change», which through the use of a British penny, focused on the circumstances of Polish migrant workers in London and a place known as the Polish Wailing Wall where they go to search for jobs (often illegal and poorly paid).

India has built a fence on the border with Bangladesh to stave off illegal migration, but if the rise of the ocean is not stopped, concrete and barbed wire are unlikely to prevent the flows of climate migrants.

Anna Wetter's contribution takes as an example the decision - making process that has led to the adoption of Directive 2009 / 52 / EC on minimum standards on sanctions and measures against the employers of illegal migrants in order to assess a number of legal questions that characterise the development of EU criminal law.

Family Rights Group's response to the Home Office consultation on reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal migrants, September 2015