The number of suspected illegal migrants entering the United Kingdom via the English Channel has doubled this year without the Home Office mounting a single flight to deport any of them since Brexit, according to reports from the Telegraph.
The number of migrants reaching English shores in the first two months of 2021 is 531, compared with 286 in January and February last year, an 86 per cent increase.
A further 66 suspected illegal migrants reached British soil on Tuesday, this despite the UK handing France an extra £28 million in funding to boost French police and border patrols.
The news comes despite a new law introduced on January the 1st which made their asylum claims inadmissible if they had been in a safe third country before arriving in the UK.
The law replaced the Dublin agreement which lapsed after Brexit and under which EU nations agree to take back any migrants who can be shown to have travelled through them before reaching the UK.
A Home Office spokesman said: “We are no longer bound by the EU’s Dublin Regulation which was rigid, inflexible and often abused by meritless claims that would effectively time out the process.
“In January, new rules were introduced which make asylum claims inadmissible where people have travelled through safe countries to get to the UK through illegal routes.
“The UK will continue to seek to return people who have no right to be here and arrive in the UK through illegally-facilitated crossings”
Alp Mehmet, chair of think tank Migration Watch, said: “Despite Government efforts, such as they are, the situation gets worse. Indeed, it’s a mess. It will only start to improve once illegal arrivals are returned quickly in much greater numbers.
“The initiative remains with the traffickers, who are ultimately succeeding. The French too must deal more effectively with the problem at their end and stop escorting illegal immigrants into British waters.”
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