Nearly 60,000 people are set to make the dangerous journey across the Channel in small boats this year as it appears the Home Office has agreed to pay £234,000 to charter a private vessel to help Border Force. Some 28,526 people crossed the Channel last year, according to official figures,Read More →
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 →
SOME 28,526 people arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in small boats last year, according to official figures released for the first time. The Interior Ministry on Thursday released statistics measuring irregular migration for the first time, confirming the official annual totals recorded by the government. TheRead 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Migrants who crossed the English Channel to Britain from northern France are being held in deplorable conditions despite government promises to improve accommodation, inspectors said on Thursday. The findings by the Prisons Inspectorate and independent voluntary monitoring groups came after visits to migrant detention centers over the past three months.Read 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 →
Around 150 people gathered near 10 Downing Street to protest the deaths of more than two dozen people who drowned while trying to cross the English Channel this week. Twenty-seven people died during Wednesday’s crossing, making it one of the deadliest days in the migrant crisis. The protest, organized byRead 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 →
The sinking of a migrant boat that killed 31 people off the coast of France has again raised concerns about people smuggling. For years, law enforcement on both sides of the Channel have played cat and mouse with criminal gangs as tactics changed and evolved. But despite millions of poundsRead More →
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Britain has been hit by a wave of migrants making the perilous journey across the English Channel, leading to calls for further government action to tackle the crisis. These calls intensified after at least 27 migrants died crossing the English Channel Wednesday. UK Home Office figures suggest a record numberRead More →
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered an intergovernmental review of the migrant crisis as he is “exasperated” by the failure to stem the number of crossings from France, The Times reported on Saturday. British frustration at the number of migrants crossing the English Channel illegally fromRead More →
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LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered an intergovernmental review of the migrant crisis as he is “exasperated” by the failure to stem the number of crossings from France, The Times reported on Saturday. British frustration at the number of migrants crossing the English ChannelRead 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 →
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 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 →
A record 853 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK on small boats in a single day, the Home Office said. It comes after a person from Eritrea was fatally hit by a train and at least two bodies were found on the northern French coastline this week. Several moreRead More →
The oil tanker Thun Garland responds to a migrant boat in distress, October 24 (Premar Manche) Posted on October 24, 2021 9:07 PM by The Maritime Executive On Saturday, the French rescue coordination center CROSS Gris-Nez organized a rescue forRead 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 →