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Nearly 600 migrants cross Channel TODAY as Belgium becomes new small boat departure point
GB News ^ | April 18, 2026 | Mark White, George Bunn

Posted on 04/18/2026 7:49:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

At least 250 small boat migrants launched from Belgian beaches on Saturday, as almost 600 illegal immigrants from Belgium and France crossed into UK waters.

This latest significant surge in Channel migrants has taken the number who have arrived in the UK so far this year to more than 6,000.

It was the biggest single day of small boat activity along the Belgian coast, since people smugglers began a major shift in tactics this year.

As well as a 70-mile stretch of French coastline, criminal gangs are now targeting multiple beaches in Belgium to launch migrant dinghies, in efforts to avoid French law enforcement activity.

One senior maritime security source told GB News: "This is the biggest tactical shift from the criminal smuggling gangs in the last few years."

Until this year, Belgium had rarely been used by smugglers because of the distances involved and the robust approach of Belgian police.

Small boat launches from Belgium averaged around three to four a year. But so far in 2026, around 25 migrant dinghies have set off from that country's coast.

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


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barbarianinvasion; barbarians; invaders; invasion

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1 posted on 04/18/2026 7:49:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Allies landed approximately 150,000 soldiers in France on 6 June 1944. So this is 1/250 of a D-day invasion every day.


2 posted on 04/18/2026 7:57:09 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: MinorityRepublican
SUE 'THE ELITES' BUYING THOSE SMALL BOATS - - sue them for any damages done by their illegal stooges/invaders.

3 posted on 04/18/2026 8:00:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (Oil was over $100 for three and a half years of Obama’s term without daily headlines - MSM sucks...)
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To: GOPJ

England is the problem. The hordes know all they have to do is make to England and they are in.


4 posted on 04/18/2026 8:13:10 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Le Camp des Saints” was prophecy.


5 posted on 04/18/2026 8:14:20 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: jroehl

Totally insane. Soon there will be no Europe. It will be a third world &^%$hole.


6 posted on 04/18/2026 8:14:55 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dunkirk, The Sequel.


7 posted on 04/18/2026 8:22:05 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Belgium is about to find out why there has been strong and steady resistance to EU policy


8 posted on 04/18/2026 8:25:59 PM PDT by lee martell
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Free everything if they make it.


9 posted on 04/18/2026 9:16:08 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: MinorityRepublican

Musical Illegal alien freeloaders.


10 posted on 04/18/2026 9:18:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Asshat the Piker needs to get his domestic terrorist ass out of my country. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Brits voted for this repeatedly, they get what they deserve.


11 posted on 04/18/2026 11:12:32 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: lee martell

Nope - Belgium is passing them through, they’re not staying in Belgium.


12 posted on 04/18/2026 11:13:27 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Until they get the will to sink the boats...


13 posted on 04/19/2026 3:59:15 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: MinorityRepublican
...almost 600 illegal immigrants...

The media continues to misspell INVADERS.

14 posted on 04/19/2026 4:23:19 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: MinorityRepublican

It is like an inverted crusade but England isn’t fighting. Just surrendering.


15 posted on 04/19/2026 4:32:01 AM PDT by Kudsman (John Thune. The one person in a country of 330 million stopping voter ID. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Labour Party (led by Prime Minister Kier Starmer) are perfectly fine with this invasion.

Labour is equivalent to the filthy evil scumbag democrat party in the USA. They want millions and millions of unskilled illiterate third world savages to come vote for government largess. Communism is the goal.

The UK cities are already overwhelmed and taken over by primitive Islamist hordes. Woe to be a women in that environment.


16 posted on 04/19/2026 4:46:28 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: gibsonguy

With the EU more than happy to make sure they go away.


17 posted on 04/19/2026 6:38:33 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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