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2024 saw the second highest number of arrivals in a year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018
The number of migrants arriving in the UK in 2024 after crossing the English Channel in small boats was up by a quarter on the previous year, figures show. Some 36,816 people made the journey in ...
In August, six migrants died and about 50 had to be rescued when their boat capsized after leaving the northern coast of France. In November 2021, 27 people died after their boat sank.
If migrants who prove themselves to be from several countries arrive in England through illegal means, upon arrival the UK Government is unlikely to reject their claims to asylum. In 2019 at least 1,890 migrants arrived from France via small boats; the Home Office reported that only around 125 were returned to other European countries. [12]
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.
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 ...
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Starmer began the speech by claiming that "the previous Government were running an open borders experiment." [9] He then stated that the Conservative Party had promised to reduce immigration levels into the UK, but failed and failed so on purpose, saying that "Brexit was used for that purpose to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders.