If You’ve Been Planning To Enter Europe Thro Small Boat Crossing, This’ll Make You Think Twice

If you have been planning entering Europe, especially Italy and the United Kingdom through small boat crossing, there is need for you to think twice.

Aside the instructive and scary video footages of recent, proving how more endangering the attempt has become, there is a new and collective resolve against small boat crossing by both the United Kingdom and Italy..

The two countries are set to launch what has been described as Mafia-style crackdown on illegal immigrants who opt for small boat crossing.

This new UK and Italian police chiefs Joint Taskforce will see to it that those exploring loopholes in this area are checkmated.

Crime agencies and Government officials will launch a “follow the money” approach as decided at a crunch meeting in Rome on Tuesday.

The dirty money squad is set to use methods honed by Italian authorities to claw assets away from mob bosses.

Aside from working to seize so-called “dirty money” from organised criminals, UK and Italy will also share intelligence on migrant gangs responsible for smuggling people across Europe.

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This is coming at a time when the Donald Trump administration in the United States is cracking down on illegal immigrants, which has resulted in droves of non-Americans and non-Europeans are rethinking their nationality, on the one hand, and their mission in the two countries.

The latest UK-Italy operation will use lessons learned from the Italians’ crackdown on the mafia as Prime Minister Keir Stammer seeks to “smash the gangs”, a report from London Mirror has intimated.

Starmer and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni are known to have a good working relationship, with the Rome-born PM previously saying that she is “in tune on many issues” with the UK.

Last week the Home Office announced tough new measures that would see the UK Border Force given counter-terrorism-style powers that will allow them to “identify, disrupt and smash people smuggling gangs” faster.

Under the plans, criminals caught selling or handling small boat parts could be jailed for up to 14 years as the Home Office aims to make it “illegal to supply or handle items suspected of being for use by organised crime groups”.

The two nations will share intelligence with each other on cash linked to organised immigration groups. And they are poised to work together to seize the ill-gotten gains of criminal gangs responsible for smuggling people across Europe.