The number of English Channel boat migrant crossings hit its highest level this year for a single day, with over 800 landing on Saturday.
The crisis in the English Channel reached another grim milestone on Saturday, with the number of boat migrant crossings hitting its highest level this year for a single day, as over 800 landed.
Despite claims from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that his feckless Conservative government’s policies have been “working” to stem the tide of illegals pouring over the Channel from France, the crisis seems to be escalating rather than abating.published by the Home Office, some 872 migrants reached the UK on Saturday in 15 small boats launched by people smugglers on the coasts of France. This represents the highest total for any single day period of 2023.
The latest small boat crossings take the total for the year to approximately 20,973, with 1,172 reaching the country over the past week, alone. While this is down from last year, when around 25,000 migrants had reached the UK by this point of the year, it is still significantly higher than in 2021 when around 28,000 landed on British beaches during the entire year.
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