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A Sudanese national has been sentenced to five years in prison by a French court after being found guilty of supplying boats to illegal immigrants looking to cross the English Channel from Northern France. Sudanese national Abdulnasser Abdulkarim was sentenced to

Archbishop Justin Welby, the de facto head of the Church of England, has used his Easter message to attack British government plans to transfer some male boat migrants to Rwanda while their asylum claims are processed, claiming the policy “is the opposite of the nature of God”.

Boris Johnson’s government has reportedly agreed to send £120 million to Rwanda for a trial scheme to house male illegal boat migrants.

Over 4,500 illegal boat migrants land on British shores since the start of the year, as another 80 landed on Monday.

At least 190 migrants arrived in Britain on Thursday, bringing the total number of migrants who have illegally crossed to Britain by boat to over 4,000 since the start of 2022.

Illicit migrant crossings via the English Channel are soon to become illegal in the UK as the Conservative party attempt to get a handle on the ongoing crisis.

With 150,000 Britons offering their homes to Ukrainian refugees since a new scheme was launched on Monday, the government is drawing up plans to capitalise on British hospitality by looking to resettle other refugees people’s homes, too.

Nearly 700 illegal boat migrants have been brought ashore in Britain over the past two days, as the crisis continues its record-setting pace.

Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government for the Royal Navy to take charge of the Channel migrant crisis are a failure before they have “even started”, a parliamentary committee has warned.

Ninety-nine illegal migrants were ferried to the British port of Dover on Friday after being picked up in the English Channel by the UK Border Force and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

The record waves of illegal boat migrants arriving on British shores which some, including Brexit leader Nigel Farage, have characterised as an “invasion”, continued on Tuesday with over 200 more aliens landing.

Priti Patel’s borders bill suffered serious setbacks on Monday in the House of Lords, which rejected criminalising illegal migration.

The French navy has intercepted and detained a Russian cargo ship in the English Channel in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The Home Office revealed that nine out of ten boat migrants who land in the UK are male, confirming prior statements from Nigel Farage.

Nearly all of the illegal boat migrants who arrive in Britain have no passports, according to Migration Watch UK.

Britain’s Home Secretary has tasked Alexander Downer, one of the masterminds of Australia’s tough border policies, with reviewing Britain’s notoriously weak Border Force.

British government defence minister James Heappey has admitted that the Royal Navy will not be blocking migrant boats or making arrests as the Channel crisis continues unabated — but claims operations in the waterway are “already pretty successful”. 

An estimated two-thirds of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel suffer from hypothermia and other injuries sustained at sea.

A think tank has accused the Home Office of trying to cover up boat migrant crossings and has launched a petition to keep the figures public.

At the expense of the British taxpayer, a number of cameras will be installed across northern France to prevent illegal migrant crossings.

A UK migration think tank warned the government not releasing illegal migrant data will allow numbers will to rise without accountabiltiy.

French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed that the British government are the ones at fault for migrant deaths in the English Channel.

Two years after leaving the EU, record waves of migrants continue to land despite Boris’ promise to “take back control” of the borders,

Over 1,000 illegals have landed in Britain this year, more than five times as many that made the journey during January of last year.

Germany has joined France and the UK in an operation to tackle smuggling gangs behind the surge of migrant arrivals across the Channel. 

Nearly 100 more illegal boat migrants were brought ashore in England on Sunday as January is on pace to see a record 1,000 make the journey.

The UK is said to be looking at detaining all male migrants intercepted while crossing the English Channel under mooted government plans.

French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has stated he would support the United Kingdom turning back migrant boats in the English Channel. 

Priti Patel’s Home Office is reportedly planning to scrap the reporting of daily boat migrant figures, leading to accusations of a cover up.

The British government has reportedly been warned that up to 65,000 illegal boat migrants will land on English soil this year.

The migrant crisis in the English Channel is continuing its record-setting pace, with nearly another 200 illegals landing on Saturday.

The people-smuggling trade has claimed its first life of the year in the English Channel, as another 400 illegal migrants have landed.

French authorities have claimed that the number of migrants rescued by French authorities after shipwrecks in the English Channel tripled in 2021 to over a thousand. The French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) stated Monday that French authorities had

France is reportedly set to propose a joint agreement between the EU and the UK on migration as the illegal boat migrant crisis continues.

The UK Border Force has again threatened strike action over government plans to implement “pushback” measures to better enforce the British border.

Nigel Farage predicted that “at least 60,000” will land on British beaches in 2022 as the first illegals came ashore this year.