The numbers crossing the Channel this year are on course to surpass 2022's record-high of about 46,000
The numbers crossing the Channel this year are on course to surpass 2022's record-high of about 46,000Criminal gangs operating migrant boats are aiming to overwhelm “aggressive” French police tactics such as trying to tip over vessels, a Border Force union officer has said.
A Border Force union official said better weather and new tactics from criminal gangs trying to overwhelm police with mass launches on French beaches were fuelling the spike. The current record number of crossings in 2022 when 45,756 people arrived was more than 150 times higher than the 299 recorded in 2018, the year the small boat crisis started.said civil servants had sent several submissions to Home Secretary James Cleverly, and other ministers, on decisions needed to move forward but had yet to hear back.
he would introduce the cards to avoid traffickers exploiting migrants despite the Government’s Rwanda scheme. “The weather is good. The traffic has been displaced as we said it would be, with the very aggressive French tactics which were successful throughout the latter part of last year,” she told“It’s led to movement down the coast so people are leaving from slightly more remote beaches than they were.“The French are on the beaches trying to catch people.
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