Nearly 450 presumed asylum seekers were arrested yesterday in La Manche. The Home Office says UK authorities had to rescue or intercept 253 people in 10 events. A faded image of asylum seekers landing on the beach in Kent. Image submitted Meanwhile, French authorities have stopped 196 people from travelingRead More →
The Home Office and the Ministry of Defense are considering how they can use the “full range” of government capabilities to intercept crossing points. Last year, more than 28,300 people made the trip with a record 1,185 Remembrance Day arrivals. The dangers of the crossing and the vulnerability of migrantsRead More →
Alexander Downer will conduct the first review of the Border Operations team in over a decade. Starting today, he will examine all areas of the agency’s work, including illegal migration, customs and national security. Mr Downer was responsible for helping to shape Australia’s immigration policy, including the controversial policy ofRead More →
Channel: French President Emmanuel Macron blames Britain for every migrant death. Channel: French President Emmanuel Macron blames Britain for every migrant death. FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron blames Britain for every migrant death in the English Channel. The French leader, who is expected to start his re-election campaign soon, has criticizedRead More →
Channel: French President Emmanuel Macron blames Britain for every migrant death. Channel: French President Emmanuel Macron blames Britain for every migrant death. FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron blames Britain for every migrant death in the English Channel. The French leader, who is expected to start his re-election campaign soon, has criticizedRead More →
The footage, captured by an authorized Daily Express drone last week, shows rows and rows of tiny boats in a facility next to a warehouse in Dover, Kent. They are thought to have been used on the English Channel by migrants fleeing persecution from abroad, which often occurs with theRead More →
More than 28,300 people crossed the Channel to the UK in small boats in 2021, triple the number for 2020. But arrivals will continue and more people will drown in the strait between France and Britain if the government continues its “dangerous and ruthless policy”, ministers have warned. Last year’sRead More →
A Sudanese man in his twenties died trying to cross the English Channel in negative conditions, French authorities have announced. He was found unconscious and pulled out of the water after falling overboard as he and others attempted to reach the UK. French rescue teams swung into action in theRead More →
A Sudanese man in his 20s has been found dead after being pulled from the water in the English Channel, French authorities have announced. He was found overboard and unconscious in the early hours of Friday after a boat believed to be heading for the UK ran into difficulty offRead More →
In recent days, more than 300 migrants have crossed the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom. More than 100 were intercepted by French authorities before they left the coast. One person has been declared dead. On Thursday 13 January, the UK Home Office (Home Office) confirmed to theRead More →
A Sudanese man in his twenties died trying to cross the English Channel in freezing conditions, according to French authorities. He fell overboard when a boat ran into trouble shortly after leaving the coast south of Boulogne in the early hours of Friday morning. He was found unconscious by FrenchRead More →
The number of migrants rescued off Calais and welcomed by the French state has tripled in 2021, which was itself a record year for attempts to cross the Channel irregularly, reports the French Office for Immigration and integration (Ofii) on 10 January. “The number of shipwrecked off Calais and takenRead More →
A man believed to be a refugee carries a small child after he was brought ashore by the RNLI in Dover, Kent, following an incident on a small boat in the English Channel (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire The death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, who drowned with his mother and brotherRead More →
At least 28,300 migrants made the journey from France to the UK via the English Channel in 2021, three times the number in 2020, according to new data. PA Media – formerly known as the Press Association – released the figures on Tuesday based on figures from Britain’s Home Office.Read More →
Four asylum seekers who crossed the Channel to the UK in small boats have successfully had their convictions overturned for immigration offenses, with the UK Court of Appeal acknowledging a lack of evidence they intended to enter the country illegally. The asylum seekers – three Iranians and a Kuwaiti –Read More →
With the devastating deaths of at least 27 people in the English Channel last month, we are only scratching the surface of the horrific conditions faced by those fleeing their countries for safety reasons. On November 24, seven women, three children and 17 men were among those who drowned inRead More →
Emergency services are deploying rescue efforts after a number of incidents in the channel. Coastguards, search and rescue officers and Border Force officers respond to incidents off the coast of Kent. There were a number of incidents in the channel today. Photo: UKNiP The exact number of calls spanning fromRead More →
On November 24, an inflatable boat collapsed under the weight of more than two dozen men, women and children capsized in the choppy waters of the English Channel. At least 27 of the passengers, mostly Kurdish migrants seeking to reach England from France, drowned. It did not take long forRead More →
French authorities confirmed that the body was found on Friday by a fishing boat off Calais. They claimed the body would have been in the water for some time before being discovered. It is unclear whether the body was among 27 missing asylum seekers who lost their lives at seaRead More →
Will the migrant tragedy in the English Channel make a difference? Migrants are approached by an RNLI lifeboat before being taken to a beach in Dungeness, on the southeast coast of England, on November 24, 2021. (AFP) The UK has been both devastated and polarized by last week’s tragedy inRead More →
Clare Moseley is the founder of charity association Care4Calais. CALAIS, France — This week’s tragedy in which 27 people lost their lives crossing the English Channel may have shocked people around the world, but I’m secretly afraid it could lead to something worse: that it can happen again and thatRead More →
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People defending the rights of migrants stand next to a banner reading “309 dead at the Franco-British border since 1999”, during a rally outside the port of Calais, France, November 25, 2021.Rafael Yaghobzadeh/Associated Press The growing row between France and Britain over how to stop migrants crossing the English ChannelRead More →
CALAIS, France (AP) — At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died on Wednesday when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest migration tragedy on the crossing dangerous today. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 34 people were on board the boat. AuthoritiesRead More →
CALAIS, France (AP) — At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died on Wednesday when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest migration tragedy on the crossing dangerous today. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 34 people were on board the boat. AuthoritiesRead More →
Courtesy of Prémar Manche Posted on November 18, 2021 at 5:20 p.m. by The Maritime Executive Cross-Channel migration between France and the UK has been a hot topic in relations between the two countries for years, but as winter approaches it appears to be heading to new levels. A recordRead More →
A new report by UK charity Refugee Council has found the ‘majority’ of people crossing the Channel on small boats are refugees in need of protection – not ‘economic migrants’ as the government has claimed British. A quarter of arrivals on small boats that have crossed the Channel are fromRead More →
Most migrants crossing the Channel to the UK are refugees fleeing persecution, according to an analysis by campaigners. Research from the Refugee Council indicates that around a third of men, women and children making the journey would not be allowed to stay in the UK and that “the majority ofRead More →
A migrant was shot at close range French police have fired rubber bullets at migrants to prevent them from crossing the English Channel to reach British shores. On the night of September 22, numerous rubber bullets were fired at eight Iranian Kurds carrying a dinghy to the channel on aRead More →
Refugees fleeing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan will not be resettled in the UK if they cross the Channel in small boats, a Home Office minister has said. Afghan Resettlement Minister Victoria Atkins has said refugees should take “legal” routes previously agreed with the authorities if they want to accessRead More →
A man died in the English Channel while trying to reach the United Kingdom following the sinking of a boat. Search and rescue teams were called on Thursday morning after a ship carrying dozens of people ran into trouble about 13 nautical miles off Dunkirk. A cargo ship alerted FrenchRead More →