Two hundred migrants cross Channel after Home Office confirms GB News's small boat bombshell

An additional 200 illegal small boat migrants crossed the English Channel today, GB News can exclusively reveal.

A day after the crisis reached the grim milestone of 200,000 small boat migrants crossing the Channel since 2018, three more vessels made the journey into UK waters on Saturday morning.

Today's arrivals take the number of illegal crossings to just under 7,600 so far this year.

The total figure since 2018 now stands at 200,213.

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The People's Channel revealed yesterday that the 200,000 milestone had been exceeded.

Home Office official figures confirmed GB News's reporting earlier today.

The department revealed 70 migrants had arrived on just one small boat on Friday.

Despite early arrivals this morning, weather conditions are expected to worsen by lunchtime.

Poorer conditions in the English Channel will likely prevent more crossings until later next week.

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A Home Office spokesman said: “This Government is bearing down on small boat crossings. The Home Secretary has signed a landmark new deal with France to boost enforcement action on beaches and put people smugglers behind bars.

"This builds on joint work that has stopped over 42,000 illegal migrants attempting to cross the channel since the election.

“We have removed or deported almost 60,000 people who were here illegally and are going further to remove the incentives that draw illegal migrants to this country.”

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