2025-09-13 21:12
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2025-09-13 21:12
The number of migrants who illegally came to Great Britain, flowing by the La Manche channel with boats, exceeded 30,000. From the beginning of 2025 – according to the Data published on Sunday, the British Ministry of the Interior (Home Office).
According to the ministry, on Saturday, La Manche channel crossed 17 small boats of 1097 migrants, which means that from January 1, the British border crossed a total of 30,100 people with this method.
As the Press Association press agency calculated, this means an increase of 37 percent. Compared to the same period last year, when this number was 22,028.
As noted this is the earliest date in the calendar, when the number of migrants reaching the illegal British coast has exceeded 30,000 since the data in 2018 was published for the first time.
In 2024, this record number was exceeded on October 30, and in 2023 it was not recorded at all, because throughout the year the number of migrants crossing La Manche was 29 437. In 2022 this limit was achieved on September 21.
As the British media noted, The record number of newcomers crossed on Saturday, the day after Shabana Mahmood was appointed a new interior minister. This change is part of the thorough reconstruction of the government of Prime Minister Keira Starmer after resigning from the position of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner.
Mahmood is expected to exacerbate the immigration policy in the face of the growing number of people illegally exceeding the La Manche channel. Probably in the near future the minister will present Plan to transfer people applying for asylum from hotels to closed military barracks. This was confirmed on Sunday by the British Defense Minister John Healey in an interview with the BBC station, saying that the government is considering launching additional “military and civil facilities that could become temporary accommodation” for asylum seekers.
Currently, there are just over 32 thousand in hotels. people applying for asylum, and over 74 thousand He stays in long -term rented apartments, financed from the state budget.
From mid -July, anti -immigrant protests and counter -demonstrations have been underway throughout Great Britain.
The British government has committed itself to gradually withdrawing hotels for migrants by 2029 and a thorough reconstruction of the asylum system.
From London Marta Zabłocka (PAP)
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