English Channel

French authorities said Thursday that more than 150 migrants trying to reach Britain had been rescued from overloaded boats in the Strait of Dover and returned to France. “Two migrant vessels in trouble” in the English Channel strait…
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Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed the Channel from mainland Europe to Britain in small boats in 2023, an annual drop of more than a third, according to government figures released Monday. The last arrival of the year was on Dec. 16, when 55…
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Afghans have seized control of people-smuggling operations into Britain via the English Channel this year, with previously dominant Kurdish and Albanian organized-crime gangs losing business, The Times reported on Wednesday. From January…
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An overloaded boat carrying migrants capsized before dawn Saturday in the English Channel, killing at least six people and leaving more than 50 others to be rescued, according to French authorities. About 65 people were estimated to have…
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The number of migrants to have crossed the English Channel into the UK by small boat since 2018 reached 100,000 people this week, driven in part by refugees fleeing from Afghanistan and the Middle East. At least nine boats were…
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The UK has space to detain only about 3,000 people under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial Illegal Migration Bill. This is about one in 15 of the number who crossed the Channel on small boats last year and about one in 19 of the…
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Afghans made up the largest cohort of people traveling to the UK in small boats via the English Channel since the start of 2023. In all, 909 Afghans were recorded as having made the journey in the first three months of the year, making…
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Britain’s government will set up basic accommodation at military bases for migrants who cross the English Channel in small boats, and is also looking at possibly housing them in vessels, immigration minister Robert Jenrick said on…
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The British government said Monday it will introduce legislation to ban anyone who arrives in the UK in small boats across the English Channel from ever settling in the country. The government said a bill — expected to be announced…
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One in four migrants crossing the English Channel in the first quarter of the year are people fleeing Afghanistan, according to figures released by the UK Home Office. The BBC reported 1,094 Afghans made the dangerous crossing in the…
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