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The number of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel has risen by nearly 400 per cent over the previous year.

The increase in Border Force patrols in the English Channel is attracting more boat migrants, according to a former immigration chief.

Two former heads of British immigration agencies have said that British cutters should patrol French territorial waters in the English Channel and return illegal aliens to France before they get anywhere near Great Britain.

At least 40 migrants have been brought ashore after three boats were stopped trying to cross the English Channel by the UK Border Force early this morning.

Dozens of illegal migrants successfully reached the shores of Britain over the weekend, being brought to Dover by the Border Force after four “incidents” of migrant boats being intercepted within three days.

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.

An American cancer survivor is the first person in the world to swim the English Channel four times nonstop.

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 Brexit mural by celebrated street artist Banksy appears to have been painted over.

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.

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.”

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.

‘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.

Britain needs to take urgent action over the Channel migrant crisis, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has been told, as three more vessels carrying illegal immigrants arrived on UK shores Sunday.

“Will be leaving for Dover to be with the families of 4 very special people who lost their lives in service to our Country!” Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

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.

The possibilities for business growth arising from a no deal Brexit are already manifesting after a ferry company began dredging Ramsgate habour to take over thousands of lorry shipments from Dover to Europe.

British officials say two men have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants from France to England by sea.

The British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has invited the anger of pro-migration activists by suggesting boat migrants coming across the English Channel are not genuine refugees, because they are already in a safe country before coming to the UK. 

Yet another boatload of illegal migrants has landed on the English coast, as the MP for Dover urges the authorities to “get a grip” of the situation.

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 a

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.

Eight more suspected illegal migrants have been picking up near the Kent coast, meaning almost 80 people have arrived during an “explosion” in sea crossing this month.

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”.

Local police in west Belgium have been told to wave through third world migrants seeking to travel to Britain, as authorities said that trying to deal with the massive illegal immigration influx was putting “basic policing” at risk.

Police have busted an alleged people-smuggling gang after intercepting a speedboat full of illegal migrants in the dead of night on the Dover coast on Friday.

UK counter-terror police arrested a man arriving into the country from France onboard a coach at Folkstone, on the south Kentish coast, Tuesday morning.The 42-year-old male was detained around 0100 Tuesday morning as the coach from France arrived in Folkstone,