12 h. ago More than 500 migrants arrive in Dover on small boats in just one day

According to Home Office figures, 1,659 migrants have arrived in the past three days on 23 boats, with 1,075 people making the perilous crossing in 15 dinghies on Wednesday alone.

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60 h. ago More than 1,000 small boat migrants arrive in UK in 24 hours

It is the fourth time this year that more than 1,000 migrants have arrived on small boats in the UK in a single day

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63 h. ago More than 1,000 small boat migrants cross Channel to Britain in just one day AGAIN

There were 1,075 arrivals in a 24-hour period, the Home Office said. It brings the total since the start of the year to 35,476, up a third on the same period last year.

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63 h. ago More than 1,000 small boat migrants cross Channel to Britain in just one day

There were 1,075 arrivals in a 24-hour period, the Home Office said. It brings the total since the start of the year to 35,476, up a third on the same period last year.

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8 d. ago Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries

The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport

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1 week ago POLL OF THE DAY: Starmer blames Brexit for 'Farage boats' crossing the Channel. Is he right?

Sir Keir Starmer stepped up his war on Reform UK today by blaming Brexit for the English Channel migrant crisis and dubbing the small boats 'Farage boats'.

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1 week ago Federal show of force and going to school by boat: photos of the day – Monday

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2 w. ago Eyes on a shuttlecock and a traditional boat race: photos of the day – Friday

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3 w. ago Three out and 1,072 in: Another insane day in Labour's small boats farce as 'one in, one out' deal fails to act as border deterrent

More than 1,000 illegal migrants crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats on the day Labour ministers hailed deporting a third asylum seeker to France under the new deal. Pictured: File photo

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3 w. ago More than 1,000 people arrive in UK in small boats in one day

Home Office figures for Friday end a spell of more than a week with no new arrivals in Dover due to poor weatherMore than 1,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats on Friday, according to Home Office figures, ending a spell of more than a week with no new arrivals.Thirteen boats carrying 1,072 individuals made the crossing on Friday, which averages more than 80 people a boat. It is the third time this year the figure for a single day has surpassed 1,000 and brings the total number this year to a record 32,103. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How me and my crew fought off a killer whale as it smashed into our boat... using vinegar: The terrifying first sign we were under attack and the tactics we used to see it off as panic broke out

Elise Wurschmidt was on a day trip with two friends and their captain when the boat was attacked by killer whales on Saturday, September 13.

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3 w. ago Three out, hundreds in: Labour farce in action as more asylum seekers arrive in Dover after crossing the Channel

Hundreds more migrants rolled onto British soil today as only three have been flown back to France in total under the farce of Labour's failing clampdown on Channel crossings.  

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3 w. ago Channel people smuggler warns 2,000 asylum seekers could be sent to Britain EVERY DAY using new bigger boats in an industry now worth 'hundreds of millions'

The second migrant was successfully deported to France as part of the agreement this morning - only for hundreds more to set off in dinghies from a beach near Calais.

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3 w. ago One out, hundreds in: Labour farce in action as more asylum seekers arrive in Dover after crossing the Channel

The Eritrean man said he was an 'alleged trafficking victim' and his barristers asked for an 'interim relief' because deportation would risk multiple human rights breaches.

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3 w. ago Another small boat migrant deported as minister claps back at Trump's military call

Photos taken in Calais at daybreak show children being carried onto small boats bound for the UK, on the day a second man was returned to France as part of the new 'one in one out' deal

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3 w. ago Ice puts more than 10,000 people in solitary in a year – and figures are rising under Trump

Study shines light on growing numbers of vulnerable people being placed in solitary confinement in migrant jailsUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) put more than 10,500 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 and May 2025, and use of the practice has quickly increased under Donald Trump’s administration, according to new research.A report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the Peeler Immigration Lab, and Harvard Law School experts, published on Wednesday, sheds light on what’s happening inside US immigrant detention facilities and how increasing numbers of vulnerable people are being subjected to solitary confinement for longer periods of time. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago No 10 denies ‘one in one out’ migrant deal with France is ‘shambles’

Plans to forcibly remove people who arrived in small boats abandoned for second dayDowning Street has denied that the government’s returns deal with France is in chaos after plans to forcibly remove from the UK people arriving in small boats were abandoned for a second day.Asked by reporters if the latest delay meant the so-called “one in one out” agreement was “a shambles”, the prime minister’s spokesperson said “No”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The forgotten town on the frontline of Britain's migrant crisis: How locals in Dover have been left behind by the small boats war

The Dover coastline is a key arrival point for Channel crossings and with more than 182,000 people reaching England since the migrant crisis began.

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