More than 50,000 people have crossed Channel in small boats since Labour took power | Immigration and asylum
Official figures have confirmed that more than 50,000 people have passed on small boats since the Prime Minister of Keir Starmer.
The data of the Ministry of Interior, published on Tuesday, showed that most of the 50,271 people who successfully requested asylum came from France from France, because the Labor Party won the general elections in July 2024. A total of 474 people arrived on Monday.
Milestone continues to disturb the government where the asylum seekers will be placed while the income and claims are processed as the issue of irregular migration.
Starmer came to power 13 months ago and took care to avoid repeating the last government’s word “stopping boats”. However, the Prime Minister promised to “smash the gangs” behind the channel transitions.
However, figures show that the number of people who came to England through small boats in the first half of this year, despite a series of attempts from the Ministry of Interior along with other European governments, is 48% higher than the same period last year.
The last conservative Prime Minister Rishi altar took 603 days to cross 50,000 kilometers, and Boris Johnson took 1,066 days during the Covid-19 pandemi.
The government increases its efforts to reduce the migration that explains that the return of the new “One, One Out”, which was made with France on Friday.
The Ministry of Interior also expanded the “now deportation, then appeal” program, where foreign criminals were deported before their objections were heard.
An Educational Minister said that “unacceptable” reports, which claimed that the figures will be reached on Tuesday, shortly before the figures were officially published, said “unacceptable”.
Lady Jacqui Smith, a former Interior Minister Malvern, Gordon Brown, said how the buried crime gangs were under the previous conservative government.
On Monday, official figures claimed that 49,797 people passed on small boats from Northern France.
BBC said to Breakfast: “This unacceptable number of people. For the last six or seven years, the criminal gangs show an absolute base in tragic smuggling of the people in the channel.”
Kemi Badenoch claimed that it would scold the number of boats as “fast” by reigning the plan to deport the Rwanda of 700 million pounds and opening detention centers for asylum seekers.
Addressing journalists on Wight Island, the conservative leader said, “My team is now looking at what we can do in terms of detention centers, but [also] Stop stopping people here in the first place: If they think they will be sent to Rwanda and they will not come here, make a free hotel, get benefits, then they won’t come here. “
Asylum seekers are not allowed to work until their claims are taken into consideration. Due to a asylum accumulation, many have been living in hotels financed by the taxpayer for more than a year.
French officials confirmed that a woman died on Monday and tried to ride a boat to switch to England.
According to the Utopia 56 organization, which supports displaced immigrants on the French border, the female refugee died at Malo Beach in Dunkirk. It is believed to be in their 30s.
According to the local media, the incident took place on Monday at 4 am. French officials, the French coast of the emergency services in the event despite the resuscitation efforts died, he said.
The Ministry of Interior said he was aware of the incident but would not comment any more.
According to an UN Agency International Migration Organization, at least 20 people tried to cross the channel this year.
