The Home Office has started revealing how many migrants have been prevented from leaving France as dozens more arrive in Dover today.
The changes to the website were made last week in a move to highlight unity between British and French authorities in dealing with the issue of illegal immigration.
New sections titled ‘Migrants prevented’ and ‘Events prevented’, which MailOnline understands is data coming directly from French Police details how many boats have been stopped from getting in the water and how many people were in those dinghy’s.
The latest data reveals that 98 migrants arrived on small boats yesterday, while 71 migrants in three small boats were stopped from leaving France.
The Home Office has started revealing how many migrants have been prevented from leaving France as dozens more arrive in Dover today (pictured)
Graph showing the number of migrants that have arrived in the UK by crossing the Channel since 2019
The latest data reveals that 98 migrants arrived on small boats yesterday, while 71 migrants in three small boats were stopped from leaving France. Pictured: Migrants arrive in Dover today
The changes to the website were made last week, and now include new sections under ‘Migrants prevented’ and ‘Events prevented’ in move to showcase unity between British and French officers in dealing with the issue. Children and adults arriving in Dover today (above)
Images from Dover today showed the group of people, including young children being brought in to the port in Kent by a Border Force vessel.
Taking this years figures alone to over 8,500 – a significant upswing compared to this time last year with more expected as the people smuggling gangs take advantage of the relatively calm weather to make more landings.
Last year 29,437 migrants arrived in the UK, down 36 per cent on a record 45,774 arrivals in 2022.
The perilous crossings cost more lives last week, as five people died, including seven year old Sara, when they were trampled to death or suffocated beneath the heaving mass of bodies on the dinghy, which capsized just off the coast of Wimereux, near Boulogne-sur-Mer just south of Calais.
Her distraught father, Ahmed, 41, said he all he wanted was for ‘my kids to go to school’ and saw the UK as his last chance after 14 years of failed claims to stay on the continent, even though his daughter was born in Belgium.
The young child was laid to rest this week in France, in a white coffin surrounded by her family, who placed flowers and her favourite teddy bear on top of the mound of earth to mark the grave.
‘I lost my child, I lost my daughter. She was like a butterfly, like a bird, she was everything to us, the light in our home, our source of laughter, she was everything,’ Ahmed told Sky News.
Sara Alhashimi was with her father Ahmed when he claims their dinghy was attacked by a rival group of migrants, causing it to become heavily overcrowded and capsize just off the coast of Calais on April 30, leading to her death
The young child was laid to rest this week in France , in a white coffin surrounded by her family, who placed flowers and her favourite teddy bear on top of the mound of earth to mark the grave
The first illegal migrants set to be removed to Rwanda have now been detained, following a series of nationwide operations
It comes ahead of the Government’s bid to get flights to send migrants to the east African nation off the ground by July, after the Safety of Rwanda Act became law last week
It comes ahead of the Government’s bid to get flights to send migrants to the east African nation off the ground by July, after the Safety of Rwanda Act became law last week.
Enforcement action is said to have taken place throughout the UK – in England, Wales and Scotland as well as Northern Ireland – since midday on Monday.
Children are not expected to be detained as part of the operations, but it is not known how many people are already being held in preparation.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘The unacceptable number of people who continue to cross the Channel demonstrates exactly why we must get flights to Rwanda off the ground as soon as possible.
‘We continue to work closely with French police who are facing increasing violence and disruption on their beaches as they work tirelessly to prevent these dangerous, illegal and unnecessary journeys. Last year they stopped 26,000 people from reaching our shores.
‘We remain committed to building on the successes that saw arrivals drop by more than a third last year, including tougher legislation and agreements with international partners, in order to save lives and stop the boats.’
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