There has been a dramatic upsurge in the amount of illegal migrant boats being intercepted in the English Channel, according to leading news agencies.
On Sunday morning, the French coastguard collected eight migrants in a small dinghy and returned them to Calais.
On the day the EU agreed to accept Theresa May’s draft Brexit deal, Sky News witnessed the growing problem of migrants crossing the English Channel to reach the UK
https://t.co/vq8vi2Lb2Z— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 25, 2018
Sadly, it appears this was the exception, not the rule. The majority of illegals are brought to the United Kingdom for processing.
A conservative estimate places the number of migrants who’ve attempted this crossing in the last month to one-hundred.