Posted on 11/03/2025 1:42:41 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
No migrants have been recorded crossing the English Channel for 11 days, the longest gap so far this year.
The most recent date on which people arrived in the UK after making the journey by boat was October 22, according to the latest Home Office data.
Bad weather is likely to have played a role in stopping migrants from attempting to reach the English coast.
Storm Benjamin brought heavy rain and strong winds to northern France and the Channel on October 23, with further wet and blustery weather on subsequent days.
The 11-day gap in arrivals from October 23 to November 2 beats this year's previous longest gap, which was the 10 days from August 27 to September 5.
Channel crossings in 2025 are no longer running at record levels.
The cumulative number of arrivals this year, 36,954, is 7 per cent below the total at this point in 2022 (39,929).
Some 45,774 migrants arrived in 2022 - the highest number in any calendar year since data on Channel crossings was first collected in 2018.
This year's total of 36,954 has already passed the number for the whole of 2024 (36,816) and 2023 (29,437).
Separate figures show 75 migrants have now been returned to France under the Government's 'one in one out' deal, while 51 have arrived in the UK under the scheme.
The Home Office confirmed on Friday that a flight returned 20 people to the continent on October 30, with a further 13 transported the previous week.
The pilot scheme was agreed with France as a way to deter migrants from coming to the UK in small boats across the English Channel, alongside other efforts by the Government to clamp down on illegal working and return more people with no right to be in the UK.
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Shouldn’t the British Navy go and pick them up in France and give them a lift over? Someone has to terrorize the Helots to keep them in line.
Rats!
I was kind of hoping it was the squadrons of restored Supermarine Spitfires...
The key word there is “recorded”.
I asked the people shown below to raise their hand if they believe that no migrants actually crossed. Notice how many hands are raised. 🤔
Something about I took a very long steamboat journey to be here.
“The key word there is “recorded”.
Precisely and of The Mail reports it is an absolute fact.
The Home Office confirmed on Friday that a flight returned 20 people to the continent on October 30, with a further 13 transported the previous week.
With an average arrival of 100 people each day - an average for the year unlikely to change much before January - this government "return" policy is just for appearances.
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