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The Home Office and Border Force have announced that the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, and the French Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, have signed an agreement in an effort to strengthen UK-France cooperation to tackle illegal immigration across the Channel. This comes as the National Borders Bill is being debated. The Bill aims to allow people entry without any abuse of the immigration and asylum systems. The package agreed includes deploying surveillance technology to improve coverage of crossing attempts on the French coast, investing in infrastructure to increase border security and improving law enforcement deployments and expanding patrols further north-west around Dieppe. Both nations have also agreed to implement a long-term plan for a smart border along the coast using surveillance technology.
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