English Channel

More than 1,800 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel over the past week despite government promises to stop the boats.

An analysis from a left-wing think tank has found that the average cost of housing and supporting supposed asylum seekers in Britain has more than doubled over the past four years.

French maritime authorities pulled the bodies of two migrants from the English Channel on Wednesday, pushing the count of dead and missing in French waters so far this year above 50.

The British government has allowed in more illegal migrants than any other country in Europe, an international study has found.

The people smuggler-facilitated migrant crisis in the English Channel claimed the lives of another four people Saturday, including a small child who is said to have been “trampled” to death.

The government scheme to put up migrants in hotels across Britain will reportedly continue for another three years despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s vow to end the practice.

The number of adult migrants claiming to be child asylum seekers has climbed to a record high in Britain this year, with more than 1,300 fraudulent cases discovered by authorities.

During his first trip to Italy since taking office British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the UK will seek to replicate Giorgia Meloni’s success in stemming the tide of illegal boat migrants, sparking a wave of criticism from leftist Labour Party lawmakers back in London.

Several people died early Sunday during a failed attempt to cross the English Channel from northern France, French authorities said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned the Labour government that it will suffer a similar defeat to the Tories if they fail to protect Britain’s border.

Just a day after 12 migrants died, several dozen others were making another crossing attempt on a crowded vessel.

At least 12 people, mostly women, have been killed in an unseaworthy boat attempting to gain access to the United Kingdom’s southern border.

The Labour Party government’s plan to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants will reportedly see thousands added to the country’s welfare rolls.

A record number of migrants crossed the English Channel on Sunday, delivering the highest single-day total since left-wing Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gained office with a vow to end the illicit human trade.

Two illegal boat migrants died in the English Channel on Sunday morning after setting sail from the beaches of France in an unstable dinghy.

Since the new Labour Party government came into power earlier this month, over 3,000 illegal boat migrants have crossed the English Channel.

An illegal migrant died in the English Channel as the crisis continues unabated under the new left-wing Labour Party government in Britain.

Britain’s border control disaster roars on with four more killed, having been put on an unseaworthy boat by killer human traffickers. 

Sit Keir Starmer’s government is reportedly planning to offer more than 100,000 migrants — mostly illegals — to apply for asylum.

On his first day in office, newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer reportedly scrapped the plan to send illegal boat migrants to Rwanda.

Nigel Farage called for the Royal Navy to intervene in the boat migrant crisis as 50,000 reached Britain since Rishi Sunak came into power.

A new record high of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel this year from the beaches of France was set on Monday.

Nigel Farage blasted both the Tory and Labour parties for not having plans to stop the “national emergency” represented by the migrant crisis.

A review found BBC staff were discouraged from reporting on the negative impacts of migration over concerns of being branded racist.

Illegal immigration costs the British taxpayer at least £14 billion per year in public services, alone, a former government minister has said.

Open borders advocates on the streets and in the government have stepped up efforts to derail plans to remove illegal migrants from the UK.

Violence from people-smuggling gangs and illegal migrants along the French coastline is escalating, a British Border Force official warned.

With newfound leverage over the EU, the UK has vowed to not permit any illegal migrant returns from Ireland while France refuses the return of Channel migrants.

The French Navy is facing critism for escorting a small boat to UK waters even after five migrants fell off the vessel and drowned.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has “staked the house” on stopping illegal migrants crossing the English Channel and therefore will have to call for a general election in June or July to force voters to cast their ballots before his hallmark legislation has a chance to fail.

Sad irony as human traffickers again send migrants to their deaths just hours after UK government passes its deterrence bill.

The bill would theoretically see illegal migrants removed from Britain to Rwanda, however, getting illegals on flights is not a certainty.

UK govt planes to take migrants to Africa are still three months away and Farage doubts whether a single migrant will be removed at all. 

The inability or unwillingness of the Conservative government in Westminster to “stop the boats” was put on display again over the weekend.

Nigel Farage said the British people should be called on in a referendum to decide if the UK remains in the European Court of Human Rights.

Illegal migration in the English Channel has surged by 43 per cent over last year as nearly 800 boat migrants were ferried ashore at Dover over the Easter holiday weekend.