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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said five women were among the dead, two people had been rescued and one was still missing. An initial report indicated that 31 people had died, but the minister revised this number to 27 on Wednesday evening. Four suspected traffickers accused of being directly linkedRead 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 →
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 →
Around 1,000 people reached the UK in a single day after risking their lives in small boats in the English Channel, a new record for the current crisis. A young girl wrapped in a red jacket was seen being carried ashore in Dover on Thursday, one of hundreds brought toRead 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 →
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 →
The body of a man was recovered from the sea in the English Channel by the coastguard, police say, after being reported by a passing ship – it comes amid a rise in migrant crossings The body of a man was recovered from the English Channel by the coast guardRead 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 →