More than 11,000 migrants crossed the English Channel illegally on Sunday to reach the English coast in small boats, London said on Monday, as justices consider a British plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
After a record-breaking August, the number of such dangerous crossings rose to 1,160 from 25 ships, according to the Defense Ministry, surpassing 1,000 for the second time in two weeks and bringing the year-to-date total to 27,384. This is almost as much as last year’s total (28,526).
The moves have reached a dramatic level in recent days, with British justice starting Monday to hear an appeal against the government’s highly controversial plan to deport asylum seekers who arrived illegally in Rwanda.
Although none of these deportations have happened yet; The first flight scheduled for June was canceled following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), with succession candidates Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss vowing to continue. this policy.
A recent British parliamentary report estimated the total could reach 60,000 this year, despite repeated promises by the Conservative government, which has made the issue a post-Brexit priority, to pay France millions to help it strengthen its coastal surveillance. tighten the admission of migrants;
Source: Le Figaro
