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Another grim illegal boat migration record was set in July as 3,500 crossed the English Channel from France, as 9,300 have landed this year.

UK immigration officials have become so overwhelmed by the number of new arrival migrants they have been forced to register them in car parks and feed them takeaway pizza.

The CEO of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has defended the charity’s operations picking up boat migrants in the English Channel as “humanitarian work of the highest order”.

Former Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott should be tapped to head up the UK’s illegal boat migration strategy, Nigel Farage has said.

Nearly 600 illegal boat migrants attempted to cross the English Channel over the weekend, with hundreds successfully landing on Sunday.

Calais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont has said the tens of millions of pounds the British government is sending to France to stop the Channel migrant crisis is “going to waste” because the French do not and, he claims, cannot stop the boats. 

The number of boat migrants illegally crossing the English Channel from France has surpassed the yearly record set last year.

The boat migrant crisis in the English Channel set yet another daily record on Monday, with the Border Force taking over 430 illegals ashore.

Priti Patel’s plan to imprison illegal migrants would cost the British taxpayer £412 million per year, the Refugee Council has estimated.

Nigel Farage predicted that 30,000 illegal boat migrants will reach Britain this year, saying that the crisis is “totally out of control”.

Nigel Farage has warned that “nothing” Home Secretary Priti Patel’s proposed to curb illegal boat migration will work.

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced it will no longer bother to attempt prosecuting most illegal migrants even under existing laws, as Home Secretary Priti Patel is once again claiming the Tories are poised to get tough on immigration.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage doubts that the British government will follow through in imprisoning migrants who enter the country illegally, saying the only way to stop the crisis in the English Channel is to turn the boats back to France.

Nigel Farage characterised the growing migrant crisis in the Enlgish Channel as an “invasion” as more migrants landed on British shores.

The number of crossings by boat across the English Channel has risen sharply despite the pandemic and pledges from the government to stop illegal aliens from making it to Britain’s shores.

More illegal boat migrants have landed on British soil in the month of June than were recorded during the entire year of 2019.

Home Secretary Priti Patel should visit Britain’s border to witness the scale of the illegal boat migration crisis, Nigel Farage said.

Nigel Farage has cast doubt on Priti Patel’s reported plan to hold migrants in Africa with Denmark, saying it “will never happen”.

The UK is said to be in discussions with Denmark to establish a joint migrant centre in Africa to stem the flow of illegal migration.

The UK Border Force has reportedly been employing covert tactics including turning off tracking and radio systems while picking up migrants.

Over 5,000 illegal boat migrants have been recorded landing on British sands since January, more than double the total this time last year.

The Home Office has announced that this week is “Refugee Week” to celebrate the “contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees”.

An overwhelming majority of Britons have backed the idea that illegal migrants should be barred from applying for asylum status.

The UK Home Office has failed to deport over 1,500 illegal migrants who travelled through safe countries prior to reaching Britain.

The British government should consider tasking the Armed Forces to assist border patrols in the English Channel to confront the migrant crisis, said the former head of the UK Border Force. Tony Smith, former director-general of Border Force said that

Kent County Council (KCC) has threatened to sue the Home Office to force other councils in England to take in child migrants amid claims that Kent’s services are at the “breaking point”. The Conservative Party controlled council, which is the

Priti Patel has reportedly demanded that social media companies censor videos of illegal migrants as they “glamourise” the perilous journey.

A migrant camp in Calais housing some 800 migrants was broken up by French police on Friday following reports of violence against officers.

The UK Border Force reportedly travelled into French waters to pick up illegal boat migrants and bring them back to British soil.

A Turkish lorry driver has been charged, convicted, and imprisoned for trying to smuggle illegal migrants out of the United Kingdom. 

Illegal boat migrants have threatened “mob unrest” if the British government does not speed up their settlement into tax-payer funded accommodation, the union for the UK’s Border Force has revealed.

The Home Office has confirmed that 568 illegals crossed the English Channel in small boats to reach Britain in just four days.

Over 400 illegal boat migrants landed in the space of 24 hours as a protest was held in Dover against the growing migration crisis in the UK.

Over 3,000 illegal migrants have landed on British soil after crossing the English Channel so far this year, doubling last year’s record-setting levels, as criminal gangs continue to outwit the Home Office. A report from the National Crime Agency (NCA)

Nigel Farage has predicted that with the number of illegal aliens landing by boat on British shores growing year on year, some 20,000 migrants could arrive in 2021. The Brexit leader also condemned the mainstream media for failing to cover the crisis, vowing on his return to the UK to get out into a boat and report for himself what is happening in the English Channel.

Nearly 200 illegal migrants landed on British soil on the same day that the Queen’s Speech outlined the government’s latest proposals to deal with the growing crisis in the English Channel.