US EditionFrance’s reported new tactic to stop small boats
- More than 500 people arrived in the UK on Friday after crossing the Channel, increasing the annual total to 21,117, which is up 56% from last year, according to analysis by the PA news agency.
- Reports indicated that French police officers used knives to puncture a boat off the French coast during their operation.
- The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a crackdown on illegal working in the gig economy, targeting asylum seekers suspected of working without permission.
- Cooper stated that illegal working undermines honest business and undercuts local wages, vowing that the British public and the Government will not stand for it.
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Evening Standard
perspectivemedia.comMore than 500 people crossed Channel on Friday
Overall, 517 people arrived in eight boats, according to analysis by the PA news agency.
Downing Street welcomes new tactics used by French law enforcement forces to prevent illegal crossings Downing Street congratulated Friday on "hardening"
The prefecture justified the intervention by the danger incurred by asylum applicants in the United Kingdom on that day.
French services prevented a group of illegal immigrants from sailing on a rubber dinghy to the UK. The police thwarted the escape off the coast of Boulogne by stabbing the dinghy. There are many indications that this may be a permanent change in France's immigration policy. As reported by the BBC, a group of illegal immigrants wanted to sail from French territory to the UK via the English Channel. The British service directly refers to the dingh…
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France’s reported new tactic to stop small boats
UK govt welcomes French police stopping small-boat crossing
The British government said Friday it welcomed footage showing French police stopping a small boat carrying migrants from setting off across the Channel. The UK and France have been rowing for years about who should be responsible for dealing with many thousands of migrants who make their way from Africa and the Middle East to the northern coast of France in a bid to get to Britain by boat. The BBC on Friday broadcast footage of French police pu…
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