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Small boat carrying record 125 people crosses Channel
BBC News ^ | 28 September 2025 | Simon Jones and Adam Hale

Posted on 09/30/2025 4:25:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A small boat crossed the Channel on Saturday carrying 125 people, the largest ever number to make the journey in a single vessel.

The crossing surpasses a record set in August when 106 people attempted the journey in one boat.

Figures from the Home Office show 895 migrants crossed the Channel in 12 boats on Saturday, while around 33,000 people have done so since the start of 2025.

It comes after another migrant died trying to cross the Channel, with a body found on Sunday morning on a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France, according to the AFP news agency.

The age and nationality of the person are not yet known, with French media reporting they were a young adult.

An investigation will determine whether there is a link between the latest death and and an attempted crossing near Equihen-Plage, a little further north from Boulogne-sur-Mer, the port town's prosecutor Cécile Gressier told AFP.

There a 49-year-old woman was found suffering from hypothermia and was taken to hospital.

Two Somali women also died when their makeshift boat got into difficulty on Saturday, with the number of deaths from illegal crossing attempts between France and the UK this year now at least 27.

On Saturday, among the many attempted crossings on makeshift boats thanks to favourable weather, 14 required emergency services, the Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and North Sea (Prémar) said in a press release.

Despite the steady increase in French resources to prevent perilous crossings - with substantial financial support from the UK - there are no signs the attempts are slowing down.

The UK government has come under increased pressure over the number of small boat crossings and asylum seeker applications, with more than 50,000 people making the journey since Labour came to power in July 2024.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: barbarianinvasion; barbarians; invasion
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1 posted on 09/30/2025 4:25:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Start sinking the boats and they will stop coming. But it’s too late for that now.


2 posted on 09/30/2025 4:27:51 PM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They want all the taxpayer funded free stuff


3 posted on 09/30/2025 4:28:05 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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They have to STOP calling these Criminals migrants


4 posted on 09/30/2025 4:29:03 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: butlerweave
De wants de white womens.

5 posted on 09/30/2025 4:29:32 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: butlerweave
De wants de white womens.

6 posted on 09/30/2025 4:29:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s simply too late for them over there.


7 posted on 09/30/2025 4:31:39 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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Let me guess - they were the first to receive Starmer’s Digital ID.


8 posted on 09/30/2025 4:32:07 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“”””A small boat crossed the Channel on Saturday carrying 125 people, the largest ever number to make the journey in a single vessel.

The crossing surpasses a record set in August when 106 people attempted the journey in one boat.””””


Does Guiness have a category for most illegals in a small boat?


9 posted on 09/30/2025 4:34:32 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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Small boat carrying record 125 people crosses Channel

Excellent!!

Hopefully they all were Muslim males under 50!

10 posted on 09/30/2025 4:36:23 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What they should be saying in England;
“Man the torpedoes!!”


11 posted on 09/30/2025 4:37:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MinorityRepublican

the trawler Jeune France carried 186 across the channel...

(context is everything...)


12 posted on 09/30/2025 4:37:54 PM PDT by stylin19a ("Death Smiles At Everyone - Marines Smile Back" - 250 years of smiling - 11/10/2025)
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> A small boat crossed the Channel on Saturday carrying 125 people … <

In related news, Prime Minister Starmer pledges to send one of them back. Maybe.

In the meantime, dig deeper into your pockets native Brits. Because you’ll be paying to house and feed these new arrivals.


13 posted on 09/30/2025 4:38:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Watching Sargon of Akkad video as we speak. Britain may not survive.


14 posted on 09/30/2025 4:40:12 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cultural enrichment


15 posted on 09/30/2025 4:41:42 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Will they go home when there’s no money left in the UK ?


16 posted on 09/30/2025 4:45:14 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Were they met with a welcoming committee and put up in a Michelin ***** hotel, given cash, free health care, tickets to Covent Garden, gift certificates to a health spa with massages, free retirement, round-the-clock secret service protection (or UK equivalent)? Anything else?

Oh, and were the British People given the finger?

17 posted on 09/30/2025 4:47:09 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("Break free from the temptations and shackles of this world." Erika Kirk, September 21, 2025)
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> Will they go home when there’s no money left in the UK ? <

No. They will riot and pillage. And rape.


18 posted on 09/30/2025 4:50:35 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: butlerweave

Just like the illegal aliens invading America.


19 posted on 09/30/2025 5:20:08 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

ILLEGALS

NOT mere “migrants”

Fricking feminized globalist propagandists.


20 posted on 09/30/2025 5:26:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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