The number of migrants arriving from the United Kingdom after crossing the Channel of La Mancha has reached a new record during the first four months of the year.
Some 656 people raised in 11 small boats on Saturday, taking the total number of people crossing in 2025 so far to 8,064, according to the provisional figures of the Ministry of Interior,
Less than half until April, this is already higher than the 7,567 people who crossed the channel during the first four months of last year, a record at that time.
A spokesman from the Ministry of Interior said that the Government has a “credible plan to finally restore the order of our asylum system”, and that “it will not stop at all” to dismantle the business models of labor gangs.
There were 5,946 arrived in the first in the first four months of 2023, and then 6,691 in the same period in 2022.
The 656 people who entered the United Kingdom on Saturday is the largest number of crossings recorded in a single day this year.
However, the largest number of registered daily crosses was on September 3, 2022, when it was documented that 1,305 people have crossed in the United Kingdom through small boats.
In a statement, the French coast guard said it, rescued 50 people from several ships in the sea on Saturday, after some migrants asked for help.
Twenty -eight passengers were tasks to Calais, in northern France, of a boat that got into difficulty, and 19 people were rescued in another boat while the rest on board continued their trip.
Three people of another boat were tasks for the docks in Boulogne-Sur -mer, while others on board rejected the assistance and continued on their way, he added.
Earl this year The Government announced a series of measures to address the smuggling of peopleincluding New criminal crime to endanger the lives of others in the sea With a prison period of up to five years, this year is expected to enter into force.
A spokesman from the Ministry of Interior said: “We all want to end the dangerous crosses of small boats, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.”
They said that the government’s plan includes “more hard application powers, increase returns to their highest levels for more than half decade and a great repression of illegal work to end the false promise of jobs in bats.”
The Secretary of the Interior of the Shadows, Chris Philp, described the figures as a “national misfortune.”
“This news underlines what we all knew: Keir Starmer has lost control of our borders,” he said, adding: “The gangs laugh, the ships continue to arrive and the taxpayers must pay the invoice.”
