Human smuggling operations continued in the English Channel over Christmas as hundreds of illegal immigrants arrived on British shores after setting sail from French beaches.
According to to solarThe newspaper, Britain's largest circulation newspaper, said around 400 boat migrants crossed the Channel on Christmas Day.
Since December 14, when 160 aliens arrived, there has been a surge in holidaymakers who did not cross the border for more than 10 days.
Some 35,040 illegal immigrants have crossed the Channel from France so far this year.
The number of people crossing has increased by 20% compared to last year, but has fallen since 2022, a record year in which more than 45,000 people landed on British shores.
Nevertheless, the surge in illegal boat migrants is further undermining Sir Keir Starmer's left-wing Labor government's claims that their plans to target smuggling gangs can solve the crisis.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK says the government should adopt a boat approach and send migrants back to France, rather than the current approach where Border Force acts as an effective ferry service to land illegal migrants at the port of Dover. I've been advocating this for many years. For processing.
Reform MP Lee Anderson said every express“The best Christmas present Britain can have today is to send freeloader economic migrants back to France. I don't want these people coming to my country.''
Reformist MP Rupert Lowe I wrote on X: “If even one of these illegal immigrants sets foot in the UK, Christmas or not, they should be immediately detained and deported as quickly as possible.
“They expect comfortable accommodation and upkeep. Let's take away that incentive by shouting and the boats will stop overnight.”
