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More than 150,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the last seven years. Since current records began on January 1 2018, 150,243 people have made the journey, according ...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN agency which tracks the number of people who die crossing the Channel, says 77 people have died attempting to make the journey this year.
So far this year, 35,898 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel, provisional Home Office figures show. That is up 22 per cent on this time last year, but down 22 per cent from ...
December 31: 1,843 migrants are reported to have successfully crossed the Channel in the course of 2019. – 2020. July 12: Home Secretary Priti Patel and French interior minister Gerald Darmanin ...
More than 1,000 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel over the weekend as eight people died trying to make the journey. Channel crossings continued the day after news of the deaths ...
On 14 January, five migrants trying to cross the channel were found dead on a beach on the channel coast of northern France. [56] On 28 February, the death of three migrants attempting to cross the channel from Cap Gris Nez was confirmed by French authorities. The number of Channel crossings is 32% lower than the total recorded at the same ...
On 24 November 2021, an inflatable dinghy, carrying 30 migrants across the English Channel from France to the UK, capsized whilst still in French territorial waters near Calais and Dunkirk. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Twenty-seven people were found dead, while two others survived and were rescued, and another is still missing.
The number of migrants crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began in 2018, with the total arrivals in 2023 down more than a third on 2022.