{"id":150846,"date":"2025-06-02T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150846\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:12:08","slug":"nearly-1200-migrants-reach-the-uk-in-boats-across-the-channel-in-a-one-day-high-for-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150846\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,200 migrants reach the UK in boats across the Channel in a one-day high for the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.K. government figures Sunday showed nearly 1,200 migrants arrived in the country Saturday in small boats<\/a> from France across the English Channel, the highest number recorded on a single day so far this year.<\/p>\n

The latest Home Office figures show that 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats Saturday in what were settled weather conditions, bringing the provisional annual total so far to 14,811. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s 42% higher than the same point last year, an increase that has piled pressure on the Labour government, which returned to power nearly a year ago partly on disillusionment with the previous Conservative administration<\/a> \u2018s efforts to get a grip on the the numbers making the crossing.<\/p>\n

Having ditched the Conservative government\u2019s plan<\/a> to send migrants who arrived in the U.K. by unauthorized means to Rwanda, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government would get control by smashing the gangs and the business models that sustain their smuggling operations. <\/p>\n

Since gaining power, Starmer\u2019s government has sought<\/a> better intelligence-sharing internationally, enhanced enforcement operations in northern France and has adopted tougher rules in its immigration legislation.<\/p>\n

French police officers were seen watching Saturday as migrants boarded at a beach in Gravelines, between Calais and Dunkirk, and authorities were then pictured escorting the boats. French authorities said they rescued 184 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty shocking, those scenes yesterday,\u201d Defense Secretary John Healey told Sky News.<\/p>\n

He added that it is a \u201creally big problem\u201d that French police are unable to intervene to intercept boats in shallow waters, adding that the U.K. is pressing for the French to put new rules into operation so they can intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not doing it, but, but for the first time for years \u2026 we\u2019ve got the level of cooperation needed,\u201d he told Sky News. \u201cWe\u2019ve got the agreement that they will change the way they work, and our concentration now is to push them to get that into operation so they can intercept these smugglers and stop these people in the boats, not just on the shore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite French and U.K. efforts, the cross-Channel route, one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes, remains a major smuggling corridor for people fleeing conflict or poverty. Many migrants favor the U.K. for reasons of language, family ties or perceived easier access to asylum and work.<\/p>\n

The Home Office says 36,816 people arrived in the UK on small boats in 2024, 25% more than in 2023 (29,437). The highest number of arrivals was in 2022, with 45,774.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.K. government figures Sunday showed nearly 1,200 migrants arrived in the country Saturday in small…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,5502,4179,4884,28981,40,2819,807,257,6657,1144,285,18266,2945,712,16,15,11654,1764,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-150846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-english-channel","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-human-trafficking","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-john-healey","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-migration","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-poverty","23":"tag-rwanda","24":"tag-scotland","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-kingdom-government","28":"tag-wales","29":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611115963814671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}