The Trump administration this week pressed five African presidents to take in migrants from other countries when they are deported by the U.S., two officials familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Thursday.

Sir Keir Starmer said the plan was a ‘real breakthrough in the way we tackle the vile trade of people smuggling’.

Five countries whose leaders held talks with Trump at the White House were sent a U.S. proposal to accept deportees, document shows.

The report undercuts months of assertions by senior Trump officials, who have repeatedly claimed they have no power to compel the return of these individuals.

Migrants in Calais have told the BBC that they will stop at nothing to reach the UK. "We're going to try again and again to cross to the UK," said one migrant, undeterred by the efforts of border police, "that's why it's a game, and we're going to win".

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday during a news conference that there will be “no amnesty” for migrants and mass deportations will continue to achieve a “100% American workforce.” Rollins cited the number of adults in the Medicaid program,

The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the Venezuelan men who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison,

The BBC 's Tom Symonds witnessed a UK Border Force ship bring migrants to Dover, after picking them up in the English Channel. The coastguard told the BBC that it co-ordinated the response to multiple incidents involving small boats in the Channel.