Ninety illegal immigrants arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in two small boats on Christmas Day, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.
They were the first crossings recorded since Dec. 21. So far, the provisional total for illegal immigrants making the dangerous journey across the Channel this year has reached 45,756, including about 15,000 who are believed to have come from Albania.
That compares with 28,501 in 2021 and is 151 times more than the number that tried the crossing in 2018.
Members of the Dover lifeboat place a body bag on a stretcher after returning to the Port of Dover following a large search and rescue operation launched in the English Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, southeast England, on Dec. 14, 2022. (Gareth Fuller/PA Media)
Four people died on Dec. 14 after a boat carrying illegal immigrants capsized in the English Channel….