Britain will pay France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced.
Following a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday, Sunak said the UK has agreed to send Paris £478 million ($577 million) to fund a new detention centre in France and hundreds of extra French law enforcement officers.
This is the first time the UK has helped fund a detention centre in France to enhance its ability to cope with the number of illegal immigrants trying to cross the Channel from the French coast….