{"id":84382,"date":"2026-02-02T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84382"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:48:46","slug":"social-media-users-touting-illegal-routes-face-five-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/social-media-users-touting-illegal-routes-face-five-years-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media users touting illegal routes face five years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1V1hZu.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=500&amp;y=200&amp;s=165&amp;d=165\" alt=\"Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has unveiled a number of measures to curb illegal migration (PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Social media users who tout\u00a0<a title=\"Migrants \u2018buying fraudulent job offers to secure skilled worker visas\u2019 in UK\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/home-office-migrants-fake-jobs-b2908992.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">illegal routes\u00a0<\/a>into the UK face up to five years in prison as the\u00a0<a title=\"Mahmood to get power to sack chief constables after West Midlands Police Israeli fans ban row\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/shabana-mahmood-sack-police-chief-constables-west-midlands-b2906571.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Home Office<\/a>\u00a0continues its attempt to\u00a0<a title=\"More migrants come to UK than leave under \u2018one in, one out\u2019 deal with France, home secretary admits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/one-in-one-out-migrants-france-uk-mahmood-b2908549.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">crack down on small boat crossings.<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/social-media-users-touting-illegal-routes-face-five-years-in-jail\/ar-AA1Vs1ej?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=697fa7f8eaa54c639741368f2bb0e87f&amp;cvpid=fdd50e13f0ee4c96c5548805e6421445&amp;ei=91\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Social media users who tout\u00a0illegal routes\u00a0into the UK face up to five years in prison as the\u00a0Home Office\u00a0continues its attempt to\u00a0crack down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Social-Media-challenges.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84383,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382\/revisions\/84383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}