Posted on 08/25/2025 2:23:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A record 28,076 migrants have crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats this year, a 46% rise on the same period in 2024, government data showed on Monday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his handling of immigration.
The sharp increase comes amid mounting public concern over immigration, which is polling as the public's top concern, with anti-migrant protests continuing outside hotels housing asylum seekers.
The record was reached on Sunday after 212 migrants arrived in four different boats that day, the data showed.
The Home Office, or interior ministry, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Demonstrations took place across Britain over the weekend following a court ruling last week that ordered the removal of asylum seekers from a hotel in Epping, north-east of London, the latest flashpoint in the immigration debate.
Starmer's Labour government has pledged to phase out hotel use by 2029 and to overhaul the asylum system. On Sunday it announced reforms to speed up asylum appeals and reduce a backlog of more than 100,000 cases.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, the country's interior minister, said the changes were aimed at restoring "control and order" to a system she described as "in complete chaos".
Official data last week showed asylum claims were at a record high, with more migrants being housed in hotels compared with a year ago.
Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform UK party that has topped recent surveys of voting intentions, outlined plans for "mass deportations" of migrants arriving by small boats. These would include taking Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, barring asylum claims, and building detention centres for 24,000 people.
He told The Times newspaper he would strike repatriation deals with countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea, and arrange daily deportation flights.
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Starman will put them on welfare ,house them in the finest hotels and let them sit back and breed
At taxpayer expense
This is what the leftists do. He promised to keep them out but now he’s bringing in more than ever.
I am thinking, if this has something to do with Trump closing the US border.
The rump UK empire in London is in its final days.
Invasion, even the Nazis couldn’t manage. Britain is lost along with europe.
28,076 migrants???
These people are not ‘migrants’... They are illegal immigrants... fighting age men who dump their papers and passports before they arrive in the UK looking for free room, board and spending cash... While they work illegally and under the table paying no taxes at delivery services and restaurants. And those are the good ones... Some are just outright murderers, criminals and thugs... Arriving there to work for gangs.
Muslim invasion continuing?
hotels? hotels?
who gaf about hotels?
its the people
Right after Starmer claimed the Navy would crack down?
Color me shocked.
Sink the damned boats. It is an invasion.
Poor Germans, guess they never thought of the small boat invasion plan. Obviously England can’t stop them😎
Invaders
Trump needs to get involved.
Britain conquered by unarmed sailors looking for welfare.
Vikings had to fight for it.
“Starmer’s Labour government has pledged to phase out hotel use by 2029…”
Just 4 short years and then they’ll fix it.
If you believe that, you’re a moron.
L
I think he should kick the UK out of NATO and warn other Europeans that they'll get kicked out if they follow the Brits' lead by oppressing their citizens.
They shouldn't complain because for now we can still trade with them.
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