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This figure is 20% lower than at the same point of time in 2022, with the month of August seeing a 38% reduction in crossings compared to 2022 (8,631 migrants in 2022 compared to 5,369 in 2023). [52] By the middle of November 2023, the number of people arriving by small boat crossings has continued to fall with a 33% reduction recorded compared ...
Some 45,774 arrivals were reported across the whole of 2022: the highest for a calendar year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018. The total for 2023, 29,437, was more than a third (36% ...
The number of migrants crossing the English Channel in 2023 fell by more than a third from the previous year, marking the first decline since current record-keeping began, the British government said.
Migrants have been brought to shore after crossing the English Channel, the first arrivals following a spell of bad weather. Pictures show people wearing life jackets arriving in Dover on a Border ...
The legislation proposes to detain and remove those from the UK who arrive in that country by illegal means, as well as blocking them from returning. Its announcement follows a sharp increase in the number of migrants crossing the English Channel by boat, which increased from 300 annually in 2018 to 45,000 in 2022, [4] and 3,150 as of March ...
This led to a rush of migrants crossing the English Channel by boat. [6] On 28 December 2018, Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a major incident as rising numbers of migrants made crossings via boat; he warned there was a serious risk of people losing their lives as the Strait of Dover was one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
On 24 November 2021, an inflatable dinghy, carrying 30 migrants across the English Channel from France to the UK, capsized whilst still in French territorial waters near Calais and Dunkirk. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Twenty-seven people were found dead, while two others survived and were rescued, and another is still missing.
Latest Home Office figures show 62 people made the journey across the Channel from France to the UK in one boat on Thursday, taking the provisional total for 2024 to date to 14,120.