More than 700 migrants are feared to have crossed the channel today as of smugglers containing to wreak havoc. At last 670 Assylum Seekers have metready arrived in dover, and another small boat is being then monitored in the channel, it is Understood.
It comes Just Days after 656 Were Detected Crossing in Small Boats. Today's Arrivals will take the total this year to almost 9,000.
One Senior Maritime Security Source Told GB News: “This is an absolute disaster for Labor's Border Security Police And other law enforcement agencies making numerous arrests of suspected people smugglers.
“But the fact is, we don't see the gangs smashed, we see all previous records for migrant crossings be smashed.”
Home Office Figures Revealed 656 Assylum Seekers Were Detected on 11 Boats, on Saturday Heaving More Pressure on Sir Keir Starmer “Smash The Gangs” Plan.
The french Government's Position on Channel Crossings has shifted signifly over the past few months, following years of claims of inaction.
French interior minister bruno retaileau admitted Sending Migrants Back Across the channel could end the small boats crisis. Mr RetailAlleau Said Returning Assylum Seekers to France Would “Send a clear message” that is a deterrent to these considering risking their lives.
French president emmanuel macron has insisted britain must strike a returns deal with the EU – Something the Government has so far refused to do.
Mr RetailAu Said: “I do that there must be an agent that we can come to, a bilateral agreMent BetWeen Government. When one has crossed the channel, if one is sent back that will send a clear message. “
French Police Could Start Intercepting Channel Migrant Boats at the end of May, Home Office Insiders Believe. Sources believe this will begin when a new specialist policing unit unit in tackling public disorder starts patrolling the coastline.
Mr retaileau address: “We have to deal with the crossings. Up until now, we will be considered it to be a french doctrine that we will be without people on the seas – but that we woldd take no risk what.
“So we will accompany the people on the boats. Gendarmes Cannot Intervene that Doctrine of Intervention. “