5,331 people have entered the UK after crossing the English Channel from safe countries such as France and Belgium since the start of 2018, according to migration watch
More than 3,100 people have come since the start of 2020, and more than 2,500 since the start of the lockdown. More than 700 people have arrived in July alone – the highest monthly total so far.
Migration Watch has warned that they predict that the total number of people arriving this year may hit 7,500 should current trends continue uninterrupted.
This despite a total of £114 million of taxpayers’ money having been paid to France since 2015 to stop illegal immigration
The United Kingdom is currently spending £500 million of taxpayers’ money each year on free accommodation for asylum seekers over the next decade. A total of £4.8 billion in the ten years from 2019.
Only around 5%-7% of those who come via this illegal route have been sent back to the safe countries of the EU. The total understood to have been returned during 2019 is 125 out of 1,892 (just under 7%).
HM’s government has claimed that ‘over 155’ have been removed between January 2019 and May 2020, 155 returns is just 5% of the 2,900 or so who arrived during that period.
The Home Office reportedly conceded in mid-June that none of the 1,100 or so migrants who had crossed the Channel since the start of May had been removed despite the government’s pledge to send people back to France.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is in negotiations with her French counterpart and said she wants an agreement to allow British vessels into French waters and French vessels into British waters to help tackle the growing illegal migration crisis.
The French authorities do not currently intercept migrant boats even if they are just 250 yards from the French coast, it is understood this is due to the French’s interpretation of maritime law.
The Home Secretary has urged her French counterpart to consider changing this, claiming that intercepting suspected illegal migrant boats is well within the French authorities right.
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