Open door immigration policies, particularly in regard to the multitudes who are entering the country via the English Channel, still continue in Britain, despite the endless empty promises by the UK government to stop them, backed by tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Never mind that serious criminals — including murderers, terrorists and rapists — have been found among the mostly Muslim illegals. The UK appears to have passively accepted the predictions that 1,000,000 illegals will arrive by the end of this year. All this is costing taxpayers at least $8.5 million USD a day and rising.
“UK Boat Migrant Crossings Hits Highest Single Day Total of the Year,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, September 3, 2023:
The crisis in the English Channel reached another grim milestone on Saturday, with the number of boat migrant crossings hitting its highest level this year for a single day, as over 800 landed.
Despite claims from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that his feckless Conservative government’s policies have been “working” to stem the tide of illegals pouring over the Channel from France, the crisis seems to be escalating rather than abating.
According to figures published by the Home Office, some 872 migrants reached the UK on Saturday in 15 small boats launched by people smugglers on the coasts of France. This represents the highest total for any single day period of 2023.
The PA news agency noted that Saturday’s crossings surpassed the previous high on August 10th when 756 illegals made the perilous journey across the world’s busiest waterway. Saturday’s record number of migrants did fall short of the all time high set last year on August 22 when 1,295 arrived.
The latest small boat crossings take the total for the year to approximately 20,973, with 1,172 reaching the country over the past week, alone. While this is down from last year, when around 25,000 migrants had reached the UK by this point of the year, it is still significantly higher than in 2021 when around 28,000 landed on British beaches during the entire year.
The escalation in pure numbers for the year has also coincided with the average number of migrants being crammed into small boats by people smugglers hitting a new high in August, according to PA news agency analysis. Last month saw 5,369 illegals successfully make the journey in 102 boats, meaning the average per boat was around 53, a new high since records began in 2018.
Despite the increase in numbers of illegals coming across the English Channel, the government has attempted to use the slight decrease in the total from last year as evidence that its policies have been “working”.
“This year for the first time the numbers of people crossing are lower than the year before. That hasn’t happened before. That shows that the plan is working. Of course, there’s more to do, but I want people to have confidence that we are on it, and we’ll keep going,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said earlier this week.
However, others have noted that the decrease from last year was more likely a result of poor weather conditions in the Channel…
Tatanka says
Looks like D-day invasion by muslims
Michael Copeland says
Rishi Sunak is destroying Britain.
Eva says
Every politician since Churchill has been in the business of destroying britain.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So if UK had a Labour government, how much worse could it possibly be?
John Smith says
Infidel,
I don’t know for sure how much worse it would be if we had a labour government, but what I do know is that it certainly would be worse.
Eva says
If labour get in, the laughable ‘boarders’ of this country will vanish into thin air, and every piece of human garbage in the world will be welcomed in with open arms and an open benefits system, no questions asked. There won’t be any such thing as ‘illegal migrants’ any more, they’ll be ‘worthwhile citizens of the uk, who just haven’t arrived yet’.
The people smugglers are going to take a big hit in the pocket.
James Lincoln says
And the “Royal Navy” does nothing to stop the invasion of their country!
Eva says
The navy’s hands are tied.
They operate on government orders. And the government won’t protect this country or it’s citizens.
James Lincoln says
Correct, Eva.
The goverrnment should give the orders to the Royal Navy – but they won’t.
Aum says
Awaiting Supreme Courts’ judgement declaring Rwanda policy as legal.
Once that happens and we have 10,000 deportations to Rwanda this route will decrease in popularity.
Eva says
That’s never going to happen.
For whatever insane, vile reason, (I suspect kickbacks) the politicians want them here, so they’re ‘working’ on policies they know will be struck down.
Hide says
Could stop the invasion overnight if the many being landed this evening are taken immediately to a plane and deported with no notice.
National security overrides any other factor.
Would end this scandal once and for all.
In 2016, Theresa May ordered an investigation into sharia law in the UK.
Meet the woman who chaired the review.
Professor Mona Siddiqui. She is a Pakistani born Muslim.
OLD GUY says
Governments could and should stop the migration invasion of their countries.
The BIG question is WHY are they allowing this invasion to take place to begin with?
Bob says
Perhaps the UK should build an immigration processing facility for illegal immigrants on the Falkland Islands?