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Home Office records seven consecutive days of small boat Channel crossings for first time this year
The Standard ^ | March 10, 2026 | Rachael Burford

Posted on 03/10/2026 4:43:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Britain has recorded seven consecutive days of small boat crossings for the first time this year.

Some 1,200 migrants have crossed the English Channel so far in March, bringing the 2026 total to 3,409, according to Home Office figures.

It comes despite Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood last week announcing a string of new measures designed to crack down on illegal immigration.

They include changes to the refugee status system, paying failed asylum seekers up to £10,000 each to leave the UK and stripping those found working illegally of their rights to taxpayer-funded accommodation.

Dinghy crossings this month began on Tuesday, March 3 when 204 people made the trip from France in three boats.

Daily arrivals continued with 275 migrants arriving on Wednesday, 66 on Thursday, 157 on Friday, 114 on Saturday and 75 on Sunday.

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


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aliens; europe; invasion

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1 posted on 03/10/2026 4:43:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

What the flip, Kip?

2 posted on 03/10/2026 4:48:06 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: MinorityRepublican
Piece of cake...


3 posted on 03/10/2026 4:49:14 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

GB has been f’n themselves for decades now.

Lost they apparently are.


4 posted on 03/10/2026 4:52:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ve never seen an article that really explains the details. Do the smugglers just drop their passengers and return to france in their boat? Do they take a flight back and buy a new boat? Do they ever face human trafficking charges.


5 posted on 03/10/2026 4:53:41 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: crusty old prospector

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood


I think that’s the problem right there. It’s amazing that apparently the U.K. cannot find qualified people sporting English names to lead their government departments.


6 posted on 03/10/2026 5:08:15 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wars like the one now going on in Iran that includes Lebanon are going to get the refugee spigot opening wide.

700,000 people displaced from their homes in Lebanon already with God knows how many in Iran.

It’s a “Trumpanyahu Production”.


7 posted on 03/10/2026 5:32:42 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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"700,000 people displaced from their homes in Lebanon already with God knows how many in Iran."

world's tiniest violin

8 posted on 03/10/2026 5:39:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

a country that had a functioning navy could set up a picket line and turn these boats back ...


9 posted on 03/10/2026 5:48:36 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: BenLurkin

It can only get worse and it likely will what will you say when the nukes are used?


10 posted on 03/10/2026 6:26:01 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dont care about the UK anymore.
They are dead to me with their traitorous policies


11 posted on 03/10/2026 6:43:50 PM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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“Small boat crossings”

It’s not the boats that are crossing. It’s the dirt people IN the boats that are crossing that’s the problem.


12 posted on 03/10/2026 7:01:28 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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They include changes to the refugee status system, paying failed asylum seekers up to £10,000 each to leave the UK and stripping those found working illegally of their rights to taxpayer-funded accommodation.

And if they freak out and randomly stab any native-born Englishman, the refugee's knife privileges are suspended for a whole month!

Britain is sure getting tough!

Regards,

13 posted on 03/11/2026 1:17:51 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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