Small boat crossings in the English Channel have begun to surge again with 1,106 illegal immigrants arriving on the English coast in the last week.
That figure—which includes 492 people on April 5 alone—compares to 3,793 for the first three months of the year.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly pledged to crack down on illegal immigration and his “stop the boats” campaign has been one of his five main priorities since he replaced Liz Truss in October.
The government has said it believes the “world-leading” deal—which was negotiated by previous Home Secretary Priti Patel—to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda while their asylum applications are being processed, would begin to have a deterrent effect when deportation flights begin taking off….