US EditionMigrant Channel crossings pass 20,000 for the first six months of the year for the first time
- In the first half of 2025, nearly 20,000 migrants arrived via small boats in the UK, setting a record for this period.
- Good weather and new smuggling tactics have driven the record surge in Channel crossings in 2025, surpassing previous peak years.
- Official figures show nearly 20,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in the first half of 2025, a 50% increase from last year, with a daily peak of 879 arrivals.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces increased criticism over migrant crossings, while Reform UK surges in opinion polls amid record-high numbers in 2025.
- The UK government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill advances amid ongoing UK–France negotiations, with 2025 potentially surpassing previous records for migrant crossings.
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Small Boats - And The Rising Tide Of Racism
The latest figures show that more than 19,000 migrants have arrived in the UK from France this year after crossing the channel in makeshift vessels, despite government pledges to destroy smuggling gangs and improve border security.Cue predictable outrage from the right wing press, GB News, Nigel Farage and so on. But these negative headlines also seem to be turning the British people against all forms of migration even when new arrivals come t…
Nearly 20,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since 1 January, a record in the first half of the year, according to figures published by the British government on Tuesday.
4 charged with running migrant stash house in East El Paso
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A federal grand jury in El Paso has indicted four alleged caretakers of a home where authorities apprehended 29 migrants in late May. The grand jury charged Erasmo Ortiz Arzola, Cesar Beltran Rocha, Jesus Fernandez Vazquez and Kevin Morin Lopez with four counts of conspiracy, harboring and transportation of illegal aliens. Arrests made in multiple kidnapping cases involving migrants, Juarez residents The de…
Nearly 20,000 immigrants crossed the English Channel to cross from France to the UK in the first half of 2025, reports Europa Press. This is a record figure that contrasts with Keir Starmer’s government’s willingness to try to reduce this type of arrivals, for which he has advocated for deterrent measures and for greater collaboration with the Welsh authorities. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of the Interior has recorded 19,982 arrivals in the fi…
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