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More than 17,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year

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The government is set to announce a “one-in, one-out” migrant removals deal between the UK and France, it has emerged.

Under the exchange, a person being deported from the UK would be exchanged for another individual sent from France who has a right to be in Britain.