MORE than 1,100 illegal migrants have arrived in the UK on small boats over two days – vastly outnumbering the three asylum seekers sent to France under the government’s ‘one in, one out’ deal.
Home Office figures showed 1,072 migrants in 13 boats made the dangerous journey across the English Channel on Friday, averaging 82 per vessel.
Only 85 arrived in a single boat on Saturday, although they set out in particularly perilous conditions with high winds and choppy seas.
Friday’s arrivals was the third time this year that more than 1,000 people have crossed from northern France in flimsy boats in one day.
The total now stands at 32,188 – edging closer to the 36,816 who came to these shores in the whole of 2024.
