Some 1,295 migrants arrived in the UK on Monday by crossing the English Channel in small boats, a new daily record despite successive British Conservative government plans to stop the phenomenon.
The migrants arrived in 27 boats and surpassed the previous record set in November 2021the British Ministry of Defense said.
Since the beginning of 2022, 22,670 migrants have completed what is one of the most dangerous crossings in the world, almost double the number recorded at the same time last year.
In 2021, a total of 28,500 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom through the English Channel, a number that exceeded all values since the beginning of the journey in 2018, with the closure of the French port of Calais and the Channel Tunnel.
According to a recent British parliamentary report, the estimate for this year is that 60,000 people arrive in the UK by this routedespite repeated promises by the British Conservative government since Brexit to financially support France to help strengthen its coastal surveillance and strengthen the reception of immigrants.
London even signed a controversial deal with Rwanda to send asylum seekers who arrive illegally to the East African nation.
Although there were actually no deportations, a first flight was scheduled for June, but was canceled following a decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Still, the two candidates to succeed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, have already pledged to continue with this policy.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), since 2014 at least 203 people have died or disappeared, at sea or on land, in an attempt to reach the north of the United Kingdom through the coast of France, and in the end of 2021, 27 people were shipwrecked.
Source: Observadora
