Home Secretary Priti Patel has sought to cast the blame for the illegal boat migrant crisis in the English Channel on her French counterparts for refusing to turn back boats just yards off the coast of France, as nearly 100 migrants successfully reached British shores.
Migration Watch UK has issued a report that predicts that the number of illegal boat migrants entering the United Kingdom will be more than 7,500 by the end of the year, as Home Secretary Priti Patel backs away from her pledge to make illegal migration an “infrequent phenomenon”.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has released more footage of illegal boat migrants being brought ashore and loaded onto coaches by the British Border Force, saying the numbers are “so overwhelming” that the government is resorting to busing migrants “all over
Armed Albanian people-smuggling gangs are running a new ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, France, that is packed with over 1,000 people who buy kayaks and surfboards to attempt to cross the English Channel.
Some 70 illegal boat migrants reached Britain on Tuesday, as the number of Channel migrant crossings have set an annual record, despite being only halfway through the year.
A trade union that represents the UK Border Force warned that if officials are forced to take the fingerprints of illegal migrants, then they may face a violent backlash from the migrants.
Some 100 illegal migrants successfully reached the shores of Britain after being escorted through the English Channel again by the French Navy.
The former prime minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, warned the UK might face its own migrant crisis unless it turns the boats back in the English Channel.
Illegal migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats threaten to drown themselves or their children in order to keep French ships back, according to reports.
Nigel Farage has warned that there may be a “massive influx” of boat migrants, with illegals trying to break into Britain before the country leaves the EU and can make its own laws on returning people not eligible for asylum.
A French ship escorting illegal migrants was potentially breaking international maritime law by travelling without its transponders turned on.
The former head of UK Border Force has called illegal boat migration from across the English Channel a “major threat” to Britain’s border security and has called for the British government to adopt a strict Australia-style approach and return illegal aliens to France.
Nigel Farage spoke about the viral success of his drive to expose the emerging scandal of illegal migrant boats crossing the English Channel.
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.
Politician and journalist Nigel Farage has said he witnessed illegal aliens being shepherded to British territorial waters “with the active participation of the French Navy” who coordinated with UK Border Force in offloading migrants into British territory.
The mainstream media have finally reported claims that French border patrols are “shadowing” and “escorting” boat migrants to British territorial waters, a day after Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage exposed the phenomenon.
Nigel Farage has claimed vindication over the mainstream media, who attacked him for travelling to migrant hotspots to report on the issue.
More than 1,000 illegal boat migrants have reached British shores since the country introduced a national lockdown in March, with people smugglers taking advantage of the coronavirus to traffic increased amounts of unaccompanied minors.
Boris Johnson has announced some minor changes to the British lockdown, but people arriving abroad are still not being quarantined and a deal with Emmanuel Macron to avoid quarantining arrivals from France, despite illegal boat migrants arriving from the country in record numbers.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said that increasing wave of illegal crossings in the English Channel are the “beginning of an invasion”, with the number of migrants reaching British shores hitting a new daily record despite the national lockdown imposed on British citizens.
Nigel Farage is undeterred by police warnings and has returned to England’s south-east coast, saying that he has “witnessed first hand our Border Force acting as a taxi service for illegal migrants”. He has also lodged a complaint against Kent Police for the late-night visit they paid him for reporting on the immigration crisis.
Since the start of 2018 an estimated 3,200 illegal boat migrants have reached British shores, yet the government has only deported 155.
Nigel Farage blamed the inaction of the Home Office for the growing “scandal” of illegal boat migrants landing on British shores during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
Nigel Farage has slammed the mainstream media for suggesting that the public no longer cares about mass migration or what he has to say about it in a video message.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that when an inquiry into coronavirus is held, “we will see that we allowed ourselves to import this disease and the British government did nothing”.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that the illegal boat migrant “scandal” is “bigger than anyone realises”, claiming many migrants are arriving in the south-east of England under cover of the night who are never accounted for.
French and British Border authorities have taken ashore 91 migrants from eight boats in the English Channel in just one day.
The British media establishment has largely ignored the spike in boat migrants illegally crossing the English Channel, despite fears that they will import more cases of the Chinese coronavirus into the UK, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage lamented.
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.
Dozens of illegal boat migrants have been arriving in England and receiving coronavirus tests, according to reports — while many healthcare workers were being refused.
DOVER, England (AP) – One tunnelling from France, the other digging from Britain, the two men smashed with pummeling jackhammers through the last slivers of rock separating their nations.
French and Dutch authorities have arrested 23 people in connection with a people-smuggling network that is said to have helped around 10,000 Kurds illegally enter the UK.
The Conservative government of the United Kingdom deported just 15 per cent of migrants that reached British shores illegally last year.
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.