A record 482 migrants crossed the English Channel on Wednesday – another 246 people were stopped by French authorities getting to the UK.
The Home Office said 21 boats made the dangerous crossing from France to Britain.
More than 10,000 people have now crossed the Channel on small boats this year, according to data compiled by the PA news agency.
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Why can’t they make a new life in their country?
Is God going to send a storm across the English channel just like he did to repel the Spanish Armada in 1588? “God blew and they were scattered”.
Set up a few gimpys on the foreshore
They could have had a new life in the rest of Europe they traipsed through, before the attempt to illegally invade the UK
Mostly young males