{"id":92646,"date":"2026-08-07T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92646"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:10:30","slug":"illegal-working-arrests-double-in-two-years-home-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/07\/illegal-working-arrests-double-in-two-years-home-office-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal working arrests double in two years, Home Office says"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/77d9\/live\/62dc4070-91d1-11f1-abbf-613e9d231927.png\" alt=\"A stock photo of a Home Office immigration enforcement van from 2017.\" width=\"671\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have doubled since Labour has been in government, the Home Office has said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce3qzd9932do\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have doubled since Labour has been in government, the Home Office has said. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/illegal-workers.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92646","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=92646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92647,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92646\/revisions\/92647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}