More than 100 migrants arrived in Dover yesterday as people-smuggling gangs took advantage of the heatwave and calm sea conditions in the English Channel.Nearly 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel in 13 boats between May 23 and May 29, with 128 people arriving on Friday alone.Crossings have continued throughout the past week as temperatures climbed sharply during the latter part of May.On arrival in Dover, migrants were seen walking around the docks while Border Force officials assisted the new arrivals and began processing procedures.Border Force vessels escorted the migrants into Dover Docks in Kent before helping them ashore.The favourable conditions over the bank holiday weekend are understood to have provided one of the best opportunities for crossings in recent weeks.Temperatures reached record highs for May in both England and Wales on Tuesday, according to the Met Office. Kew Gardens in London provisionally recorded 35.1C, while Cardiff's Bute Park reached 32.9C. Hundreds of Channel migrants have arrived in Britain over the bank holiday weekend as warm weather sparked a surge in small boat crossings Photos show people disembarking from a Border Security Command boat at Dover, in KentThis comes after the Home Office is pressing ahead with plans to introduce an AI-powered facial recognition system designed to identify adult migrants falsely claiming to be children, despite criticism from human rights campaigners. A £322,000 contract has been awarded to Essex-based Akhter Computers to develop technology capable of estimating a person's age from photographs taken at the border.Ministers say the system will help prevent adults from entering the care system by making false age claims, protecting support services intended for vulnerable children.The technology has undergone initial testing and will be trialled at Dover's Western Jet Foil processing centre before a planned rollout in 2027.The move comes amid rising asylum claims and concerns about the accuracy of existing age-assessment methods. Official figures show that more than 6,400 migrants claiming to be children underwent age assessments in the year to March 2026, with almost half ultimately found to be adults.This also comes in light of the news that nearly seven in ten voters oppose Labour's plans to replace in-person English language tests for migrants with online exams, according to a new YouGov poll. The survey found that 68 per cent of respondents opposed the move, including a significant proportion of Labour voters, while only 22 per cent supported it. On arrival in Dover, migrants were seen walking around the docks while Border Force officials assisted the new arrivals and began processing procedures