Over 1,000 illegal migrants have crossed Channel to UK so far this year

MORE than 1,000 amerciable migrants person already crossed the Channel to the UK truthful acold this year, hitting a caller record.

Home Office figures amusement 129 radical made the travel successful 2 boats connected Tuesday, taking the provisional full for 2025 to 1,019.

It means it has taken lone 21 days since the commencement of the twelvemonth for the treacherous crossings to apical 1,000 — the soonest the milestone has been reached for immoderate calendar year.

In 2022 — a grounds twelvemonth for small vessel crossings — the fig arriving successful the UK aft making the travel did not scope 1,000 until January 23.

Last year, the full reached 1,000 connected January 28, investigation of Government information since the migrant situation began successful 2018 shows.

By this clip past year, 621 radical had crossed the Channel successful inflatables compared with 280 successful 2023 and 963 successful 2022.

The crossings continued yesterday, with radical wearing lifejackets pictured being brought ashore from a Border Force vessel successful Dover, Kent.