More Than 2,000 Illegal Migrants Cross English Channel so Far This Year

Published on February 26, 2024

More than 2,000 migrants have illegally crossed the English Channel in small boats so far in 2024, down by around one-third on this time last year. Home Office figures show 290 migrants illegally crossed the Channel in five boats on Sunday, taking the provisional number of arrivals to 2,006 for this year. This is 32 percent lower than the total recorded at this stage in 2023 (2,953) but 49 percent higher than the total for this time period in 2022, when 1,482 were recorded. While the Home Office had detected zero illegal entrants in the six days prior, Sunday’s arrivals mark the highest number of migrants making the crossing in one day for more than a month, after 358 people arrived on Jan. 17....

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