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Second highest number of Channel crossings by migrants recorded in 2025
The Standard ^ | January 1, 2026 | Anahita Hossein-Pour

Posted on 01/01/2026 5:45:29 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

A total of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the English Channel – the second highest annual figure on record.

The Home Office confirmed on Thursday that no migrants made the journey on New Year’s Eve, continuing a run of no crossings over the festive period.

It means the overall number of arrivals last year finished 9% below the all-time high of 45,774 in 2022.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to “smash the gangs” had been “a complete disaster” and the “one in, one out” deal with France is a “farce”.

“The numbers coming over are huge,” he said.

“Many of the young men that have arrived last year will do us great harm.”

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is the only way to take effective action.

He said: “Labour have confined themselves to cosmetic tweaks, hence only 5% of arrivals have been removed.

“There is no deterrent and anyone who crosses the Channel know they can invoke human rights law and remain indefinitely. Labour lack the backbone to confront that truth.”

The total for 2025 was 13% higher than the figure for 2024, when 36,816 migrants made the journey, and 41% higher than 2023’s total of 29,437.

(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 01/01/2026 5:45:29 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good thing Nazi Germany didn’t think of this battle plan.


2 posted on 01/01/2026 5:56:46 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Islam S.E.A.L. teams. The enablers rejoice.


3 posted on 01/01/2026 6:09:33 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Migrants= invaders


4 posted on 01/01/2026 6:17:49 AM PST by blitz128
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nigel should promise to do the same thing Trump is doing with illegals. He would be elected in a snap.


5 posted on 01/01/2026 6:29:50 AM PST by BEJ
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To: MinorityRepublican

There is no more U.K. It died years ago. Along with a good chunk of Europe.


6 posted on 01/01/2026 6:32:19 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“The numbers coming over are huge,” he said.
“Many of the young men that have arrived last year will do us great harm.”

The insanity continues. Europe is gone.


7 posted on 01/01/2026 6:36:06 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: blitz128

Yep. The muslim invasions continue, and will continue until what is left of Europe is unrecognizable. As now in the U.S., they have gotten themselves a foothold in politics, and will never, ever give that up. The options for saving Western Civilization are very few, indeed.


8 posted on 01/01/2026 6:42:53 AM PST by drwoof
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To: drwoof

Don’t disagree


9 posted on 01/01/2026 6:45:48 AM PST by blitz128
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To: drwoof; grey_whiskers; Nervous Tick; metmom; Roman_War_Criminal

[The muslim invasions continue, and will continue
until what is left of Europe is unrecognizable]

MANDATORY Digital ID for everyone!! /666 precursor

After the United Kingdom, the European Union will be next


ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN:

Step 1: CREATE “The Problem”

Step 2: MAKE the Citizens Suffer

Step 3: PRESENT “The Solution”

Step 4: MAKE PARTICIPATION MANDATORY

COVID-19(84) was an excellent dry run
for the coming Mark of the Beast


10 posted on 01/01/2026 7:12:56 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: grobdriver

That’s a relief.


11 posted on 01/01/2026 7:23:20 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: BEJ

True.


12 posted on 01/01/2026 7:23:31 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Omnivore-Dan

And it’s all thanks to the braindead lefty voters.


13 posted on 01/01/2026 7:24:01 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: drwoof

Sad but true.


14 posted on 01/01/2026 7:24:16 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yet Starmer will make sure if you complain in the UK about your own displacement and replacement - that YOU are forced to pay for and live with - you will be brought up on charges of Hate Speech and Islamophobia and sentenced to time in prison.

This, while Starmer told Trump with a straight face:

“Free Speech is a foundational value in the United Kingdom and must be protected fiercely.”


15 posted on 01/01/2026 7:33:13 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: BEJ

Yes. Illegals must be made to nderstand there is no place for them unless they are willing to assimilate. The ones who have been there & have not assimilated....out they go to make room for those who will. Naturally, this must be HEAVILY enforced.


16 posted on 01/01/2026 7:44:07 AM PST by oldtech
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And muzzie politicians.


17 posted on 01/01/2026 8:53:40 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Carriage Hill
They'll never vote their way out of it, and one is skeptical that they'll find any other way out of it either.

Britain is fallen, and exists no longer.

18 posted on 01/01/2026 9:01:38 AM PST by OKSooner (Susie is Rasputin.)
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To: Carriage Hill
They'll never vote their way out of it, and one is skeptical that they'll find any other way out of it either.

Britain is fallen, and exists no longer.

19 posted on 01/01/2026 9:01:53 AM PST by OKSooner (Susie is Rasputin.)
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To: OKSooner

Britain is gone, France, Sweden and Germany are next, and the rest of Europe is teetering. the cancerous, islamic(SPIT!) ugliness will happen all too soon. We won’t save them, this time around.


20 posted on 01/01/2026 9:51:24 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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