Picture caption One boat carrying 14 migr
One boat carrying 14 migrants landed at Kingsdown on Saturday morning
An additional 4 boats carrying 65 migrants have been picked up within the English Channel, the House Workplace stated.
Border Pressure patrols discovered the boats travelling in direction of the UK on Sunday, a day after at the very least 151 migrants on 15 boats arrived on the Kent coast.
On Saturday the House Workplace stated it had requested defence chiefs for assist.
Immigration minister Chris Philp stated he could be in Paris subsequent week to demand stronger measures from French authorities.
He stated he needed to make the route “utterly unviable” so migrants “could have no incentive to return to northern France or try the crossing within the first place”.
He stated he additionally needed to “return as many migrants who’ve arrived as doable”, including there have been “returns flights deliberate within the coming days”.
Greater than 500 individuals have been intercepted crossing the English Channel in latest days, together with 235 – the report for a single day – on Thursday.
The House Workplace has stated the Royal Navy may very well be introduced in and there was discuss of copying Australia’s controversial coverage of bodily pushing again migrant boats.
‘Reckless and harmful’
Ex-Labour house secretary Jack Straw stated on Saturday any try to make use of these “push-back” ways wouldn’t work and will result in boats capsizing.
Human rights organisations, together with Detention Motion and Amnesty Worldwide UK, condemned the concept of boats being pressured again into French waters.
Amnesty stated deploying the navy to the English Channel to forestall individuals crossing to hunt asylum could be “illegal, reckless and harmful”.
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Migrants intercepted by Border Pressure are often purchased to Dover the place they will apply for asylum
On Friday a report variety of unaccompanied migrant youngsters arrived within the UK.
The 23 youths had been taken into the care of Kent County Council, on high of the 70 who arrived in July.
These figures don’t embody these travelling with their households. The House Workplace has refused to substantiate the variety of youngsters arriving.
Since January 2019 at the very least 5,800 individuals have entered the UK on small boats, and about 155 have been returned to Europe.
The House Workplace blamed present laws – which decide the place an asylum-seeker’s declare is heard – for the comparatively low variety of individuals to have been returned to Europe.
Mr Philp added: “We will even proceed to go after the heinous criminals and organised crime networks placing individuals’s lives in danger.”
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