Official figures show that 710 migrants crossed the English Channel on eleven ‘small boats’ on Monday, June 15th.
With the single largest number to make the crossing in a single day this year, it’s clear that government actions are having little to no effect. For instance, to date the ‘one-in, one-out’ deportations to France policy shows no signs of acting as a deterrent.
Instead the main brake on illegal activity comes from inclement weather. This, including recent high winds at sea, meant six days with no crossings. Yet as conditions improved, Monday saw illegal ‘small boat’ migrants—what Reform UK leader Nigel Farage calls fighting-age men who have thrown away their travel documents—rock up on England’s shores in the largest daily total of the year so far.
