
Belgium: the New Frontline in the English Channel Migrant Crisis
Flanders police have reported a significant shift in migration patterns, as traffickers bypass France to take the longer, more perilous route from Belgium to the UK.

Flanders police have reported a significant shift in migration patterns, as traffickers bypass France to take the longer, more perilous route from Belgium to the UK.

The patrols cost the British taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds, yet tens of thousands of migrants crossed the Channel last year alone.

The International Organization for Migration says about 33,000 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since 2014.