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Smuggling networks thrive as Channel crossings expose migrant perils

People smuggling has become a pressing concern for France and its neighbouring countries, with recent rescue operations revealing the extent to which organised crime networks exploit those seeking a better life in Europe.

Radio France Internationale

Suspects arrested in international operation targeting people-smuggling gang

The operation targeted an Iraqi organised crime group suspected of smuggling people across the Channel to the UK, the National Crime Agency said.

Evening Standard

Hundreds detained in Northern Ireland in crackdown on people smugglers

Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats

The Guardian - UK

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Police raid migrant smuggling ring accused over small boat Channel crossings

More than 500 officers participated in the operation, which was co-ordinated with British, French and European agencies

The Guardian - UK

Young children brought ashore as migrants cross English Channel

Pictures show the small youngsters being carried as they reached Dover, while men and women were also in warm clothes amid colder weather conditions.

Evening Standard

Rwanda asylum scheme spent £50m on flights that never took off, data reveals

Home secretary says £700m scheme did not result in a single deportation or stop any boats crossing the Channel

The Guardian - UK

Home Secretary pledges to ‘restore order’ to migration system

More than 33,000 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey so far this year.

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Home Secretary pledges to ‘restore order’ to migration system, as over 20,000 cross channel since Starmer took office

More than 33,000 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey so far this year.

Evening Standard

Channel crossings by migrants in small boats: Key numbers

Afghan migrants accounted for the single largest group of arrivals in the first nine months of the year.

Evening Standard

Migrant Channel crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Home Office figures show 122 people made the journey on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Weather blamed for small boat arrivals rising to 20,000 under Labour

Home secretary to highlight data showing record number of calm autumnal days that made Channel crossings likely

The Guardian - UK

Channel migrant crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Some 50,637 arrivals were recorded during Rishi Sunak’s premiership, which began on October 25 2022.

Evening Standard

France can no longer bear ‘entire burden’ of defending UK border, warns minister on migrant crisis

Bruno Retailleau, the new French interior minister, has threatened to denounce the Le Touquet agreement that allows Britain to carry out border checks on French soil

The Independent UK

‘We can live or die, but we are going to the UK’: the Calais refugees clinging desperately to a dream

Seventy-five people have died or gone missing trying to cross the Channel in small boats this year. What keeps them coming, despite the ever harsher attempts to deter them?

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Number of Vietnamese migrants crossing Channel on small boats soars 177% in a year

Vietnamese migrants are believed to be flying to Hungary and then travelling onwards to northern France

Evening Standard

Restaurants, builders and food firms illegally employing workers face 'stronger' action, says Yvette Cooper

The Home Secretary admitted some of the pull-factors attracting people to risk their lives crossing the Channel in ‘small boats’ needed to be tackled

The Guardian - UK

‘Nothing left except quivering protoplasm’: the man who pedalled a plane across the Channel

In 1979 a group of neurodivergent men embarked on an epic crossing, now immortalised on screen in The Flight of Bryan

The Guardian - UK

Britain must not copy Italy’s inhumane migrant deals

Letter: Tim Naor Hilton says we should start providing safe routes for asylum seekers to prevent people dying in the Channel

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Evening Standard

Tories say migration deals ‘won’t work’ as Government vows to ‘tackle upstream’

The comments come as official figures show that over 1,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in the last week.

Evening Standard

Fighter jets scrambled after Russian aircraft flies over North Sea

The incident comes after the Royal Navy shadowed Russian military vessels passing through the English Channel over the past week.

Evening Standard

RAF fighter jets scrambled as Russian military plane flies over North Sea towards Britain

Two Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland were ordered to monitor a Russian Bear-F aircraft

The Guardian - UK

Man suspected of supplying boats to people smugglers arrested in Amsterdam

Turkish national accused of supplying engines and boats to cross-Channel smugglers in Belgium and northern France

The Independent UK

‘Major supplier’ of migrant boats for Channel migrant crossings arrested

So far this year more than 32,000 people arrived in the UK having made the journey across the Channel by boat

The Guardian - UK

Nine boats carrying 572 people intercepted while crossing Channel

Total number of arrivals by small boats reaches 32,691 this year, up 22% on same time last year but fewer than in 2022

International Business Times

'I Live In Hope': A Channel Drama Survivor's Search For Missing Dad

Osama Ahmed's life took a dramatic turn one night in October when the small boat that was to carry him and his father to the English coast sank shortly after setting out from France.

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