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Staggering 4,000 migrants waiting to cross the Channel - double usual number
Express ^ | Wed, Oct 21, 2026 | Michael Knowles

Posted on 10/22/2026 9:05:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Almost 4,000 migrants are loitering in camps waiting to cross the Channel, it has emerged. Duncan Capps, the border security commander, said the number of asylum seekers in northern France is roughly double the typical size of the cohorts in two tent cities.

But prices for those hoping to reach Britain have fallen to as low as £840. It is believed to be one of the lowest prices on record. Mr Capps said: “I think the French estimate at the moment is that there are almost 3,800 people between those two camps. Previously it was broadly about 2,000 between them. So, our understanding now from our French partners we work with closely is almost double what we would normally expect.

“There are a lot of people in the camps at the moment, which I think is bad in one respect because a lot of people are there, but it also represents the fact that the French are making it very difficult, particularly in the Dunkirk-Calais area, to get across.

“There is a moment with this from a criminal perspective where it stops being particularly viable. And part of our strategy is to drive it to a point where it is not worth them doing this because the cost of getting the boat, the engine, the risk of them being interdicted and jailed, is so much that actually they stop being in this business.”

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1 posted on 10/22/2026 9:05:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“The French are preventing us from having the freedom to burn down historic buildings and people’s cars and from letting us loot the retail stores. So we’re demanding asylum in England.
And welfare.”


2 posted on 10/22/2026 9:10:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

If the French would do a better job of locking up their wine cabinets, maybe these migrants wouldn’t be staggering as much???


3 posted on 10/22/2026 9:10:07 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Give them the DEA drug boat treatment and this would stop in a hurry.


4 posted on 10/22/2026 9:23:29 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Give them the DEA drug boat treatment and this would stop in a hurry.


5 posted on 10/22/2026 9:23:41 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Is this the same country which once ruled the waves with the greatest Navy in the world?

Is this the same country which had an empire upon which the sun never set?

Now they can not stop low IQ morons and mud people from swamping Albion with third world vermin?

6 posted on 10/22/2026 9:29:04 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Asylum seekers” my Aunt Sally. “Those Attempting to Leech Off Brits” is more like it.


7 posted on 10/22/2026 11:43:04 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why did the UK go through all the trouble and difficulty to implement BREXIT then throw their borders open and turn much of the nation over to the Wogs?


8 posted on 10/23/2026 12:13:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why did the UK go through all the trouble and difficulty to implement BREXIT then throw their borders open and turn much of the nation over to the Wogs?


9 posted on 10/23/2026 12:13:34 AM PDT by Iron Munro (For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Meanwhile, William and Kate just hosted the leader of Omani a few days ago, a man who esposuses a belief system that tells its followers to kill the infidel, i.e. the West, wherever they are found.


10 posted on 10/23/2026 12:53:54 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: EinNYC

If you’re fleeing prosecution in your home country, you should apply for asylum in the first country you come to. That they didn’t is a clear indication that they’re not asylum seekers.


11 posted on 10/23/2026 5:26:21 AM PDT by jdege
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To: EinNYC

If you’re fleeing prosecution in your home country, you should apply for asylum in the first country you come to. That they didn’t is a clear indication that they’re not asylum seekers.


12 posted on 10/23/2026 5:26:23 AM PDT by jdege
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To: EinNYC

If you’re fleeing prosecution in your home country, you should apply for asylum in the first country you come to. That they didn’t is a clear indication that they’re not asylum seekers.


13 posted on 10/23/2026 5:26:24 AM PDT by jdege
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To: EinNYC

If you’re fleeing prosecution in your home country, you should apply for asylum in the first country you come to. That they didn’t is a clear indication that they’re not asylum seekers.


14 posted on 10/23/2026 5:26:25 AM PDT by jdege
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To: MinorityRepublican

Democrats order arrived.


15 posted on 10/23/2026 5:41:25 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: frank ballenger

Now that England has become muslim this is just a dry run, millions will fill the gap.


16 posted on 10/23/2026 6:01:29 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: chopperk

Good time to de-nuke the UK.


17 posted on 10/23/2026 6:02:25 AM PDT by anton
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To: frank ballenger

I suppose these are students too


18 posted on 10/23/2026 7:29:21 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt
I suppose these are students too.

Yes.

But if they go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, they aren't going to make it with anyone anyhow.

That includes cardboard effigies of the Iranian esteemed high leader.

19 posted on 10/23/2026 11:38:03 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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