SUE REID: Illegal migrants are sneaking BACK OUT of Britain on lorries – because their handouts aren’t enough to buy beer and cigarettes

Hasan, a canal boat immigrant from Egypt, feels he has been deceived by Britain. He complains that his free Home Office house in Plymouth is overcrowded and says the British do not give him enough pocket money for beer, a pizza dinner or his favorite cigarettes, which cost around £20 a pack.

Last week, the disgruntled 31-year-old fled his home in Devon to the ferry port of Dover in Kent, from where he was happily returned to France by smugglers hiding in the back of a lorry.

We finally spoke in the early hours of Wednesday morning while hiding in the bushes near Britannia harbor before setting off.

“We immigrants cannot live on what your asylum system provides us,” he said, grinning through yellowed teeth. ‘£49 a week isn’t enough, especially as I like to smoke.’

Hassan is just one client of a massive new ‘in and out’ human smuggling operation at the heart of Britain’s largest ferry port.

At Dover we saw disgruntled asylum seekers from countless countries so desperate to leave the UK that they are sneaking back to continental Europe on cross-Channel trucks, while our Border Force and local police appear to turn a blind eye.

Migrants want to avoid France’s border controls. They are also determined to escape the UK asylum system, which does not allow them to work and is currently stepping up deportations of criminal and bogus refugees.

Some of the ‘fugitives’ we spoke to in Dover last week had only reached Britain a few months earlier. They hoped to get a house, a job chance and the right to stay in England forever.

A photo shows a group of migrants trying to leave the UK by truck. LR Hassan (Egyptian) Untitled, Burkino Faso, Muhammed Musa And Grok. Picture taken in Dover near the Outreach Center

Ali Essa Noor (pictured) admitted becoming a middleman or fixer connecting ‘clients’ fleeing Britain with Dover gangs

‘Smuggling agents and charities in France told us these false promises,’ two Sudanese teenagers told the Daily Mail.

Mohammed Musa, 32, whom we met while wandering on the beach, said that he came to Dover from an immigration hotel in Hendon, north of London. He later explained via text: ‘I’ve been in England for a long time. I have no paperwork to work with. Nothing is good for me here. ‘I want to go back to France.’

Our month-long investigation reveals major failures in our border security. It also reveals a completely broken asylum system that even illegal immigrants are desperate to escape.

Dover smuggling gangs operate from Channel View Road, behind the main street near the seafront.

The narrow street passes a huge lorry park with trucks waiting overnight to board Channel ferries heading to France.

Tucked under a bridge is a small tent camp where migrants sleep and use their mobile phones to meet departing and arriving truck drivers.

At 23.30 on Tuesday night, we watched a white truck with Belgian plates pull up right opposite the camp. He got out of the driver’s cabin and opened the two rear doors of the vehicle.

He then returned to his taxi as four migrants (Mohammad, Hassan, a man from Burkina Faso and a second Egyptian) crawled out of the bushes and climbed into the vehicle.

Five minutes later, the driver closed the truck’s doors before driving in the dark towards the ferry terminal.

Early the next morning the same four arrived safely in Calais. We were told their secret trip was arranged by a mysterious man from West Africa who allegedly worked as a volunteer at the charity-run former Sunrise Cafe, located next door to the Dover Outreach Center for homeless and migrants, a seven-minute walk from Channel View Road.

“I gave this West African man £150 myself for Mohammed’s place in the truck,” said Ali Essa Noor, a Sudanese immigrant waiting to leave in a lorry in Dover, during a series of calls recorded by our team.

Since Noor likes to be recognized, let’s take a photo of her official papers showing that she has been released on bail by the Home Office and is awaiting deportation.

He admitted becoming a middleman or fixer, connecting ‘clients’ fleeing Britain with Dover gangs.

‘Immigrants want to leave. “I talk to smugglers and help them get to France,” he explained. ‘I’m planning to go myself one night soon.

‘I’m not allowed to work. I’m homeless living under a bridge in Dover. I want to say goodbye to England. The Ministry of Internal Affairs does not give me a house.

‘I’m begging Dover police and charities to help me get anywhere, even Egypt or Somalia. They said if they helped me leave it would violate my human rights.’

Noor, who arrived with a truck in 2016, has a criminal record.

He was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for threatening to kill a fellow immigrant.

Before that he worked as a delivery driver for an international company in Manchester for five years. “I paid my taxes to England, but I got nothing from your country in return,” he says angrily.

Noor had been in Dover since before Christmas, waiting to leave and watched as the smugglers successfully established themselves in the harbour.

Inflatable ‘small boat’ carrying migrants is seen crossing the channel after leaving northern France

Our investigation over several weeks has revealed a truly chaotic situation (File image: a group of people thought to be immigrants were brought to the Border Security Command compound in Dover, Kent)

‘Every few weeks, 20 immigrants go to France in trucks using gangs. “They are young men who desperately want to leave,” he said.

When we interviewed immigrants waiting for their truck rides, we heard countless reasons as to why they were leaving. Hassan talked about the high prices of cigarettes and alcohol.

Others, like Noor and Mohammad, are listed for deportation and want to escape before they are put on a plane.

It is not clear what awaits them along the channel. But as Mohammed, who is now in France and hiding among the Sudanese immigrant community in Paris, told the Daily Mail via mobile phone: ‘You put me up in a hotel in London, you give me a little pocket money and then you have nothing to do all day.

‘Then you want to deport me to Sudan, the dangerous place I left in the beginning. ‘I never want to see your country, England, again.’

A 25-year-old young man from Sudan who calls himself ‘Grok’ is still in Dover. He arrived by boat last autumn, but now his relatives in France are waiting for him.

‘Your asylum system does nothing for us,’ he said. ‘I was living in a hotel in Birmingham, I wasn’t allowed to work, so I ran away here to Dover to be free.’

Grok got lucky Tuesday night as he watched four migrants board trucks heading towards France. ‘The police arrested me,’ he said Wednesday afternoon.

‘They took me by car to the police station in another district. There, my fingerprints were taken and I was kept there overnight before they threw me out on the street. I walked three hours to Dover.

‘I had checked out of paid-for Home Office accommodation. But they didn’t know what to do with me. ‘They let me go to continue testing the trucks.’

Our investigation, which has lasted several weeks, has revealed a truly chaotic situation: an influx of illegal immigrants continues to arrive in Dover by truck from the continent.

The same busy truck park on Channel View Road is the destination before catching buses to the city train station.

This smuggling hub is a few minutes’ walk from the Border Force terminal, where around 70,000 migrants have been disembarked after crossing the Channel in small boats since Labor came to power in July 2024.

While the spotlight is on smugglers’ small boats bringing in thousands of people each year, immigration enforcement officials in Dover told the Daily Mail that incoming illegals remain a big problem. And both incoming and outgoing migrants use UK-based trafficking rings.

The going rate is up to £10,000 per person; The external cost quoted is quite low, ranging from £150 to £400.

On Monday night last week, a tall teenager thought to be from Africa was stopped by a police car as he walked from the lorry park towards the center of Dover along Channel View Road.

While waiting next to their vehicle, he was interrogated by police officers for half an hour. While taking photographs of the scene, a police officer made a loud call on his radio, saying, ‘We have an immigrant who has just arrived from France in a truck.’

This man was caught, put in a police car and taken away. But we also saw illegals jumping out of trucks at the Channel View Road truck park and walking away.

Last month, we photographed three men getting out of trucks at the pedestrian underpass leading to the seaside housing estate of Aycliffe on the edge of Dover.

There, the trio, thought to be Albanians, waited at the King Lear’s Way bus stop on the grounds to go to the center of Dover, where high-speed trains to London depart.

‘As you can see, some are getting off their trucks at Dover,’ said an immigration officer. ‘The others stay in the truck while heading towards land.

‘The migrant inside could be hiding for miles before the rogue driver stops to let him out at an agreed location without CCTV cameras. He would later be captured by members of the same smuggling gang.

‘Everything was planned meticulously. We think 100 migrants a week are smuggled into the UK from Dover alone. They want to avoid the asylum system and will pay large sums of money to traffickers.

‘They are repaid by working on the black market, often working on construction sites or as delivery drivers, or even making money from criminal networks operating cannabis farms in the suburbs.’

Last month we watched a cat-and-mouse game played out every night in Dover.

It is clear that the police and Border Force are fighting a losing battle. Human traffickers have left Dover in a difficult situation.

The Labor Government’s promise to break up gangs is being mocked.

The shameful truth is that this famous ferry port, known all over the world for its picturesque cliffs and visible from migrant camps in Northern France on clear days, has become a hotspot for migrant smuggling.

Not only to Great Britain, but also outside our country.