More Than 18 000 Refugees Have Crossed The English Channel In Small Boats This Year Mod Immigration And Asylum
The new figures come after a newspaper report claimed many of those crossing the Channel in the past six weeks were economic migrants from Albania and not refugees. The claims have been criticized by charities supporting asylum seekers and victims of trafficking. According to the Mail on Sunday, which published the claim based on a leaked military intelligence report, analysts based at an operations center in Portsmouth used satellites and a fleet of drones to track 70 vessels making the passage over six weeks in June ....