The UK on Monday agreed on a new deal with France to stop illegal immigrants from crossing into the UK on small boats.
It comes after 40,000 people so far have successfully made the journey across the English Channel this year.
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman signed the deal with her French counterpart, interior minister Gerald Darmanin, raising the UK’s payment to France from £55 million ($64.5 million) to £63 million ($74 million) a year.
Over the next five months, France will ramp up beach patrols, deploying 40 percent more officers, the governments said in a joint statement.
The funding will also go towards border patrol equipment and migrant centers….