People smugglers trying to sneak migrants into the UK have started using boats as big as 36 feet long to pack in more people.
The huge dinghies were sighted in Dover as numbers who have got across the Channel have topped 5,000 this year alone.
By this time last year there had been just 2,000, a rise that has sparked serious questions on the effectiveness of the UK’s borders.
Immigration officials have already warned Border Force agents are struggling to cope with the extraordinary surge in crossings, and claimed the system ‘is at the point of collapse’.
Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, said the Government ‘seems incapable of stemming the flow’ and said the ‘public are in despair as migrant after migrant pushes their way into the UK at will and people-smugglers laugh all the way to the bank’.
A government source told The Times: ‘The prime minister and home secretary are determined to look at anything that will make a difference on Channel crossings.
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