Calais

A French ship escorting illegal migrants was potentially breaking international maritime law by travelling without its transponders turned on.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has released the full version of a video purporting to show the French authorities transferring a boatload of illegal migrants to the UK Border Force in the English Channel.

The French coast guard ship filmed by Brexit leader Nigel Farage escorting illegal migrants into British waters is a regular visitor, its own safety transponder data reveals, and can be proven to have made such missions at least twice in the past week.

Dozens of illegal boat migrants were brought ashore at Dover after being intercepted in the English Channel by the Border Force, despite coronavirus outbreaks in migrant camps in France.

Some 550 illegal boat migrants have reached British shores from France during the period in which the two countries introduced national lockdown measures to stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Dozens of illegal migrants reached Britain’s shores over the weekend after being brought to Dover by the Border Force after being intercepted in the English Channel, despite coronavirus outbreaks at migrant camps in France.

Despite declarations from both the United Kingdom and France to curb migrant crossings of the English Channel, a report has found that since the beginning of the year an average of five migrant-filled boats set sail towards England every week.

The tragic deaths of 39 would-be illegal migrants from China in a refrigerator lorry trailer highlight the deadly side-effects of Britain’s lax border controls — and the criminal people-smugglers who take advantage of them. 

The Port of Dover is “100 per cent ready” for a clean, no-deal Brexit, according to Doug Bannister, the port’s Chief Executive Officer.

French police are evacuating at least 900 migrants from a gym and a nearby tent camp near the English Channel, citing concerns about security and hygiene.

A former customs officer at the English port of Dover has said that Remainer predictions of huge delays in cross-Channel shipping in a no deal Brexit have been massively exaggerated.

The number of failed asylum seekers who should be deported from the United Kingdom has near doubled in five years, and new refugees are arriving into the country every week with 28 individuals known to have landed in Kent overnight.

A French port chief has emphatically dismissed alarmist claims that there will be massive delays between Dover and Calais if the UK leaves the EU’s Customs Union in a no-deal Brexit.

Dozens of illegal migrants crossed the English Channel in boats over the weekend, the great majority landing undetected.

The deputy mayor of Calais has said that he is ready for a clean, no deal Brexit, saying, “If everyone does their jobs properly, there won’t be any problems.”

The French government, in cooperation with the UK, has launched a number of airborne drones to monitor potential illegal immigration in the English Channel.

British lorry drivers have been left “sitting ducks” by a work-to-rule strike by French customs officials, with illegal migrants hoping to infiltrate the United Kingdom taking advantage of the queues to threaten truckers with violence and even rape.

Dozens of migrants stormed a ferry in Calais, France, in a bid to break into Britain on Saturday night, in what police called a “co-ordinated attack” on the French docks.

Residents of the French port city of Calais have claimed that pro-migrant activists have given migrants equipment to cut down trees to block traffic in order to sneak on to lorries headed for the UK. The port city still sees around three

‘Project Fear’ would have us believe the United Kingdom leaving the European Union will see the nation subjected to sudden and massive shortages of everyday basics like food and medicine, yet the nation shrugged off severe supply chain disruption in recent memory without empty shelves or closed hospitals.

The head of France’s most strategic port for UK shipping has said that his region is ready for a WTO Brexit.

French authorities have built a ten-foot wall at a petrol station in Calais used by migrants who attempt to board lorries and break into Britain.

Deputy Calais Mayor Jean-Marc Puissesseau has dismantled scare stories that the UK will have to reroute freight or that there will be massive delays at the French port in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Former Brexit secretary David Davis has rejected EU assurances over the Irish backstop, saying that they are not enough and that the £39 billion divorce bill should only be paid on condition of a free trade deal with the bloc.

The British government is going to wargame the impact of leaving the European Union on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on Monday, chartering dozens of articulated lorries to simulate the impact of traffic near the port of Dover.

Forty migrants were picked up in the English Channel in five separate incidents on Christmas day, believed to be the highest number of illegals and boats intercepted in one day. The first vessel was spotted at 2:40am local time after

An MP has said the surge in “brazen” migrant boats crossing from France is “unprecedented,” as thirteen more people were rescued this weekend after attempting to cross the English Channel in inflatable boats.

A damning report into the protection of Britain’s seaports, harbours, and marinas has revealed that the country’s border is “not secured by any stretch of the imagination”.

The chief of police in the Flemish municipality of Kruibeke has questioned why he should keep migrants from travelling to the UK when they do not want to remain in Belgium.

French officials have slapped down British claims France will frustrate and “slow” trade passing through Calais in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.