‘Go to the UK, they don’t deport anyone’: Inside the ‘travel agency’ for illegal migrants in Iraqi Kurdistan fuelling Britain’s small boats crisis: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

The people-smuggler talks about Britain like a travel agent peddling a package holiday. ‘If you want to work, earn good money and have a good life, you need to go to the UK,’ he tells the Daily Mail. ‘They don’t deport anyone.’

Dlovan runs his ‘travel agency’ inside a mall in central Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. But there are no holiday brochures, computer terminals or signs of a legitimate business in Dlovan’s agency.

Instead, he sits behind a large desk littered with used coffee cups and an overflowing ashtray, chain-smoking expensive cigarettes and smelling strongly of aftershave.

Business, it seems, is good. Pointing to

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