{"id":89374,"date":"2026-05-18T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89374"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:40:55","slug":"channel-migrant-smugglers-use-corner-shops-to-take-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/18\/channel-migrant-smugglers-use-corner-shops-to-take-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel migrant smugglers use corner shops to take payments"},"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\/AA23sFek.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=373&amp;y=174&amp;s=180&amp;d=180\" alt=\"Cash for crossings can be paid by friends of potential immigrants in UK high-street shops - BBC\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People smugglers are using shops in Britain to take payments for illegal migrants who want to cross the Channel, it has emerged.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15827829\/Two-teenage-girls-raped-British-beach-man-30s-arrested-police-launch-hunt-second-suspect.html\"> 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>People smugglers are using shops in Britain to take payments for illegal migrants who want to cross the Channel, it has emerged&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Calais1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89374","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=89374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89375,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89374\/revisions\/89375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}