Seven people have been arrested in a British-Irish operation targeting a criminal gang suspected of smuggling Georgian nationals into Britain through Ireland.

Sixteen potential human trafficking victims have been identified by an organisation that has threatened the Government with High Court proceedings unless it halts a permit scheme used by the fishing industry.

Two Bangladeshi men are believed to have paid €15,000 each to Lithuanian women in a suspected sham-marriage scam.

A new round-the-clock intelligence unit to bolster Ireland’s border security will be a multi-agency body, including specialist gardaí.

Two Aer Lingus workers and a Chinese national have been remanded in custody, charged with human trafficking at Dublin Airport.

Two Aer Lingus workers and a Chinese national have been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with organised human trafficking at Dublin Airport.

There are serious security concerns at Garda headquarters at revelations of a sophisticated people-smuggling operation at Dublin Airport.

A report being launched today claims that a “flawed immigration system” is harming migrant children, and in particular those in state care.

Woman issued proceedings on legality of her detention by gardaí

A doctor says she has made a formal complaint about an incident at Cork Airport in which her husband was told he would be cautioned because his passport "smelled of cannabis".

A Mauritian man living in Dublin accused of using bogus documentation to facilitate marriages of convenience for foreign nationals was in a business that “went through the roof”, a court has heard.

It is reported that some females attending the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) are reluctant to remove face covering for the purpose of photographs.

The International Transport Workers Federation has said the Garda National Immigration Bureau must launch an “active, purpose-built investigation” into the alleged exploitation of non-EU nationals in the fishing industry.

The Workers’ Federation wants the Garda National Immigration Bureau to board vessels as

Data protection bosses have issued strong warnings to credit unions, the ESB and members of the Garda Síochána following the prosecution of a private investigator for breaching data laws.

A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardaí and the ESB.

Two of the five unaccompanied children seeking asylum here who went missing last year have still not been found, according to the HSE.

Racist incidents are being reported at a rate of eight per week, according to a new survey by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, which claimed there has been a surge in cases this summer.

A young Chinese woman who has been living in Ireland for almost eight years, is facing deportation — all because of a shopping day-trip to Belfast.

Sinéad O’Connor has hit out at poor security measures at ports and airports, saying that it is a “breeding ground” for traffickers with bags subjected to stricter scrutiny than children.

The Garda Commissioner has warned civilian staff who are refusing to operate a biometric fingerprinting system that they will face disciplinary action by the end of this month.

THE Minister for Justice has confirmed that 12 Congolese and eight Nigerians on board a deportation flight costing €337,800 last July remain in Ireland.

THE Irish Refugee Council (IRC) has called for an urgent review of the “inhumane” deportation process after a young mother was detained for deportation just hours after she suffered a miscarriage.

IT was four in the morning when Immigration officers of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) stormed into the Reception Centre on the Kinsale road — for the wrong man.

A MAN’s life has been left in asylum-seeking limbo for 14 years, while he has attempted to navigate the broken asylum system which has been threatening to deport him since 2000.

FINE GAEL have called for a specific criminal offence to end sham marriages after gardaí freed two Latvian women who were being held against their will and pressurised into marriage.

A Cameroon national who used a false name to obtain a €15,000 loan from the Credit Union has been given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to repay the remanining balance of €3,300 by next March.

THOUSANDS of immigrants are terrified they could yet lose their eligibility for citizenship after they found themselves unable to renew their residency permits over the past six weeks.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy whose mother was deported has been placed in four different temporary foster homes in the past five months.

ONLY a quarter of deportation orders issued last year were actually carried out, figures from the department of Justice have revealed.

A seriously ill Nigerian girl was spared deportation tonight when officials agreed to review her case.

A MARRIAGE planned this week between a Pakistani man and a 19-year-old Latvian bride-to-be will not go ahead following a Garda investigation into bogus marriages.

A long-serving garda has been arrested in connection with a major investigation into the illegal trafficking of underage African women into Ireland for the sex industry.

AN English academic has criticised the Garda Ombudsman after its investigation into the alleged mistreatment of his partner by members of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) three years ago found no wrong-doing.

A ZIMBABWEAN woman, whose mother and mother-in-law were denied extensions on their holiday visas so they could help care for her dying husband, was visited by Garda immigration officers in January checking if she was hiding the women in her home.

IMMIGRANTS and students seeking to study in Ireland have been hit with a 50% increase in the cost of registration with the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB).

GARDAÍ arrested two men and one woman yesterday when they swooped on three sophisticated cannabis factories in Roscommon and Longford.

A new study being published today reveals that at least 76 women have been illegally trafficked into Ireland over the past six years to work in the sex industry.

EFFORTS to crack down on human traffickers were boosted yesterday as a new joint operation — Pentameter II — was unveiled by British and Irish police forces.

A Nigerian mother and her two young children are to be deported from Dublin later today.

TOUGHER actions against people traffickers are expected as 150 gardaí finish specialised training to crackdown on the crime.

The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) is expected to execute deportation orders against the Agbonlahor family after Olivia Agbonlahor dropped a legal challenge against the State.

AN autistic six-year-old boy was yesterday given an eleventh hour reprieve on a deportation order.