Posted on 06/16/2026 8:46:03 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
More than 700 people have crossed the Channel on 11 small boats - the highest number in a single day so far this year.
The Home Office said 710 migrants made the crossing on Monday.
It follows two weeks of windy weather when there were no crossings at all.
A total of 9,852 people have made the journey so far this year - a fall of 40% compared with the same period in 2025.
The Home Office has said it was "bearing down" on small boat crossings.
In April, the UK and France confirmed a new £662m deal to stop migrants from crossing the Channel.
A landmark deal was signed with France to boost "enforcement action on beaches and put people smugglers behind bars", a Home Office spokesperson said.
It will involve France deploying millions of pounds worth of drones, two helicopters and a camera system to intercept people smugglers and illegal migrants.
Riot-trained police will also be sent to French beaches as part of the deal.
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Is a boat holding avg approx. 60 some people “small
‘bearing down’
LOL. UK neo-marxist government crowed about how their special-forces seized a “Russian Tanker” off Dover
But they can’t stop rubber dinghies full of illegals....
Which is intentional just like we had open borders under the Biden Administration.
> More than 700 people have crossed the Channel on 11 small boats <
Finally some good news!
Oh, wait. These boats are going to the UK, not from the UK.
Never mind.
Excellent idea. That will cut down on all this knuckledragger illegal immigration.
Pure invasion. Nearly 1,000 a day
No border, no country
Including here in the U.S.
“The Home Office said 710 migrants made the crossing on Monday.
The Home Office said 710 invaders made the crossing on Monday.
There, fixed it
Sure. Elsewhere in the article it stated that rough weather was to blame.
What needs to happen is immediate arrest, denial of access to the British welfare state, and return to the EU, which organization has done nothing but support the invasion. It's literally their problem. What is actually happening is coddling at a level that makes the Big Rock Candy Mountain look like a gulag.
Torpedoes still work
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