An additional 200 illegal small boat migrants crossed the English Channel today, GB News can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n
A day after the crisis reached the grim milestone of 200,000 small boat migrants crossing the Channel since 2018, three more vessels made the journey into UK waters on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Today’s arrivals take the number of illegal crossings to just under 7,600 so far this year.<\/p>\n
The total figure since 2018 now stands at 200,213.<\/p>\n
The People’s Channel revealed yesterday that the 200,000 milestone had been exceeded. <\/p>\n
Home Office official figures confirmed GB News’s reporting earlier today.<\/p>\n
The department revealed 70 migrants had arrived on just one small boat on Friday.<\/p>\n
Despite early arrivals this morning, weather conditions are expected to worsen by lunchtime.<\/p>\n
Poorer conditions in the English Channel will likely prevent more crossings until later next week.<\/p>\n
Despite a majority of small boats crossings between 2018 and 2024, Sir Keir also secured the unwanted accolade of the worst-performing Prime Minister on the crisis earlier this year. <\/p>\n
Sir Keir exceeded Boris Johnson’s 39-month total in half the time, with more arriving as a result of the “one-in, one-out” deal. <\/p>\n
A Home Office spokesman said: \u201cThis Government is bearing down on small boat crossings. The Home Secretary has signed a landmark new deal with France to boost enforcement action on beaches and put people smugglers behind bars.<\/p>\n
“This builds on joint work that has stopped over 42,000 illegal migrants attempting to cross the channel since the election.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have removed or deported almost 60,000 people who were here illegally and are going further to remove the incentives that draw illegal migrants to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An additional 200 illegal small boat migrants crossed the English Channel today, GB News can exclusively reveal. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15362,19,18,2125,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-32914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-mark-white","9":"tag-migrant-crisis","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-presenters","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116550225277601652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}