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A man has died after a boat carrying migrants deflated in the English Channel on Sunday morning, French authorities said. The man, who was Indian and aged about 40, was in a boat which left from ...
Migrants have been brought to shore after crossing the English Channel, the first arrivals following a spell of bad weather. ... Following latest data released on Thursday, the total for the year ...
More than 29,000 migrants have arrived in the UK this year after crossing the Channel. This is the second highest annual total to date since records began in 2018.
It is also below the 71,000 migrant arrests made in December 2020 as Trump concluded his 2017-2021 presidency. The number of migrants caught at the northern border with Canada fell to about 500 in ...
Operation Isotrope was a British military operation to assist the Border Force and other civil authorities in responding to the English Channel migrant crossings which began in 2018. The operation was first announced in January 2022 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid an upsurge in migrant crossings. [ 1 ]
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The number of migrants crossing the English Channel in 2023 fell by more than a third from the previous year, marking the first decline since current record-keeping began, the British government said.
An increasing number of refugees and migrants have been entering the United Kingdom illegally by crossing the English Channel in the last decades. The Strait of Dover section between Dover in England and Calais in France represents the shortest sea crossing, and is a long-established shipping route.