Dozens more migrants arrive in Dover just days after 'one-in, one-out' deal came into force as total crossing Channel since Labour came to power nears 50,000

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

Dozens more migrants have arrived in Dover today as the number to cross the Channel since Labour came to power nears 50,000.
Two Border Force vessels, Typhoon and Volunteer, were seen arriving in the port to drop migrants picked up in the Channel, while the Ramsgate lifeboat intercepted another group in the North Sea.
A total of 49,797 migrants have been picked up from the Channel since the General Election in July last year - with this figure including 281 who arrived yesterday amid ideal weather conditions for crossing the Channel.
More than a thousand people have now arrived since the Government's widely ridiculed 'one in, one out' deal with France became operational last Wednesday.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'Labour cancelled the Rwanda deterrent plan before it started with no replacement and numbers have surged.
'This year so far has been the worst in history for illegal immigrants crossing the Channel. Labour has lost control of our borders. Every illegal immigrant needs to be removed immediately upon arrival. But this government is too weak to do that.'
On Sunday, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage posted a video which showed migrants chanting 'Allahu Akbar' as they apparently crossed the English Channel.
Several young children were among the groups picked up in the Channel today
He said: 'This is a national security emergency. Allowing these men to invade our country will not end well.'
Last week, Mr Philp accused Sir Keir Starmer of ' gaslighting the British public' and making 'grossly exaggerated' claims over the new migrant deal.
He said the returns agreement would see only 6 per cent of migrants sent back. The deal is also due to last just ten months.
Speaking about the first detentions under the deal, the Prime Minister warned migrants: 'If you break the law to enter this country, you will face being sent back.'
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said 'every migrant' will be 'throwing away their money if they get into a small boat'.
Since the start of this year, a record 26,555 migrants have arrived – up 49 per cent on the same period last year.
Protests against illegal migrants continued across the country at the weekend. Demonstrators gathered outside hotels in Bristol and near Gatwick, West Sussex, which are being used to house asylum seekers.
There was also a rally near two migrant hotels in Bournemouth.
Today's new arrivals follow claims by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick that the small-boats crisis has made British women and girls less safe.
The top Tory said he fears for his own three young daughters against a backdrop of illegal migrants with 'medieval attitudes' crossing the Channel.
In an article for The Mail on Sunday, Mr Jenrick stated: 'I certainly don't want my children to share a neighbourhood with men from backward countries who broke into Britain illegally, and about whom we know next to nothing.
'And I don't want anyone else's family to have this forced on them either.'
Mr Jenrick, whose daughters are 14, 12 and ten, says the Channel crossings are now a 'national security emergency'.
Mr Jenrick references the shocking case where two Afghan asylum seekers were charged over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Mr Jenrick called for tougher action on deporting criminals back to their home countries, and said foreign aid should be suspended from those countries if they resist accepting them.
Pakistan should have its £133 million aid and visa access cut if it continues to block deportations, he argued.