The first flight is due to take off on June 14, but last-minute legal challenges are expected.Ī group of 17 failed asylum-seekers being held at Brook House detention centre near Gatwick Airport staged a five-day hunger strike over the controversial policy, while others are said to have attempted suicide. We've got to stop this movement of people, illegally, across the Channel.'Ībout 100 people deemed to have crossed the Channel illegally in dinghies have been sent 'removal notices' by the Home Office, telling them that they will be deported to Rwanda. It has sparked renewed fears that the Conservative Government's flagship policy to end the people-smuggling route through deportation risks failing.įormer Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib told Talk TV yesterday: 'If the aim of the Rwanda plan was to deter people coming across the Channel, it's not actually working is it? Because since they announced it we've had record numbers coming across again. But the total number of migrants to arrive so far this year is more than double those who had reached the UK by June 3 in 2021 when just over 4,200 people had been detained.Īccording to official Home Office figures 28,526 made the crossing in 2021 - compared to 8,410 who arrived in 2020. The MoD originally reported that 436 migrants arrived in the UK on May 15 - later downgrading the number to 389. It comes as the Ministry of Defence revised the number of migrants which have crossed the English Channel this year from more than 10,000 down to 9,941. One woman clutched a small teddy bear in her hand, while another man had his rucksack taken by the British military. ![]() ![]() Several migrants could be seen carrying their belongings with them as they disembarked the boat. Two infant children were carried in the arms of adults while a primary school-aged boy wandered along the walkway alone. Soldiers dressed in camouflage fatigues and high-vis vests helped the latest arrivals off the vessel and led them along the gangway for processing. The mostly male group, which included children and a woman carrying a teddy bear, was escorted into Dover Marina in Kent on board Border Force catamaran Typhoon by UK officials wearing white Hazmat suits and masks shortly before 11am this morning. A young girl clutching a teddy bear was among the 80 migrants who landed in Dover in around three boats today, as fears grow that Boris Johnson's Rwanda plan is not working.
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