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Brexit leader Nigel Farage has told the government that the only way to stop the migrant crisis in the English Channel is to “tow the boats back to Calais harbour”.

A legal loophole has seen the British taxpayer shell out about half a million pounds over the past year in storage costs for migrant boats.

The number of illegal aliens, mostly from the third world, crossing the English Channel has exceeded the 10,000 mark, with Brexit leader Nigel Farage now predicting 30,000 migrants will make it to Britain in 2021.

Home Office and Border Force officials should not get pay rises as they have failed to take control of the Channel migrant crisis, Nigel Farage said.

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.

Britain’s Home Office has been block-booking hotels along England’s south coast to host migrant youths as the country’s long-running Channel crisis continues to worsen, despite promises to end the practice. 

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.

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

Amid the recent spate of warm weather in the English Channel, thousands of prospective illegal boat migrants have amassed in Northern France.

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 British taxpayer will send an additional £55 million to France in order to supposedly crackdown on illegal boat migrants.

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.