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Getty imagesMore than 2,500 migrants have crossed the channel in small boats in 11 days, as the new “One in, One Out” agreement with France effective, figures from home office shows.
The plan proposes that Britain returns to France for each migrant, another person with a strong case in Britain will be allowed to live.
So far this year, about 28,000 people have reached the UK in small boats and have crossed over 50,000 since the labor came to power in July 2024.
Meanwhile, a boat caught holding more than 100 people in the channel this week was allegedly seen.
A home office spokesperson said people smiling gangs “do not care about whether weak people live or die, until they pay”.
“This is why the government is implementing a serious and comprehensive plan to break the trade model of the gangs, in which the small boat is coming back to France to detain and take a pilot scheme to detain and return a pilot scheme and return to small boat migrants.”
Rob Lawry, a volunteer aid worker, on Friday told the BBC Today program that smugglers estimated that they could send 150 people on boats.
“These are too many people, throwing an additional large boat,” he said.
“We already have reports of crushing children, not only in the crowd but also within the dingi.”
He said that it was not clear how many people were falling overboard during the crossing.
The crossing increases in the summer months when the weather in the channel is calm. In the last August, more than 4,000 people traveled.
These numbers can vary depending on the factors, including the supply of boats and how actively the police are patrolling the beaches in northern France to try to stop the boats from launching.
“One in, One Out” Pilot Scheme Prime Minister Sir Kire was established as part of a deal declared by Sir Kire Stmper and French President Emmanuel Macron During his state visit to Britain in July.
Earlier this month, the first group of people under this scheme in Dover was detained. France has not yet been taken to remove and may take up to three months.
When the labor came to power, he promised to break the gangs organizing the crossing, but warned that it would not be quick or easy. The ministers are now under pressure to give results, although the preventive effect of the return deal may not be clear until the exile starts in the earnest and does not increase the number.
Speaking about the first details earlier this month, Sir Kir said: “If you break the law to enter this country, you are being sent back. When I say I will stop nothing to secure my borders, I mean.”
The set over the last 11 months, the project will see Britain accepting the same number of asylum seekers, who have not tried to cross and can pass the investigation of safety and eligibility.
At that time, the shadow home secretary Chris Filp criticized the new deal of the government, which was “no impact”.
The National Crime Agency said that it had some success in interrupting the trading model of smugglers.
Last week, 20 inflatable boats in luck for the channel were seized from a lorry in Bulgaria – the second such discovery was in less than three weeks.
The government says that this is a depiction of the need for international cooperation to deal with illegal immigration.
Afghan was the top nationality Arrival by small boat According to home office data, by March 2025 in the year.
The Syrians formed the second largest group, followed by the people of Iran, Vietnam and Irritria.
These five nationalities were 61% of all arrival.
In 2024, about a third of 108,000 people claiming asylum in Britain arrived on a small boat.
Home Office cannot have any legal rights for people to live in Britain, or refuse to enter them.
But the 1951 refugee conference establishes the right to claim asylum in a foreign state if an applicant can prove that they can face a serious threat to life or freedom in their native country.
