GB News’s Home and Security Editor Mark White has delivered his agenda-setting analysis on another grim milestone for Britain’s migrant crisis.
Over 1,000 migrants have reached British shores via the Channel today with lifeboats “queuing up” to enter the harbour.
“Another grim milestone reached. This will be very difficult for the Prime Minister and Home Secretary knowing that 1,000-a-day crossing has been reached so early in the year”, Mark said on GB News.
“To get that so early in the year is incredible, really. It just goes to show what a significant crisis this is and attempts to smash the gangs so far are not working.
Mark White has reacted to yet another grim milestone
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“The Dungeness lifeboat was called in to assist today because all the Border Patrol vessels and French vessels were tied up dealing with sightings.
“The RNLI had to be called out to assist as they dealt with boat after boat.”
Mark continued: “The latest count we have is well over 1,000 migrants that have crossed today. If it’s 1,100 today, that will take the total for the year to 14,700, more than 42 per cent up on where we were last year. That is a record since the Channel crossing crisis began in 2018 and it looks like a year that could surpass the record of almost 46,000 migrants who crossed in 2022.
“We’re well ahead of that at the moment and there’s no reason to imagine it won’t continue with the same ferocity that it has so far in the second half of the year.”
A lifeboat carrying migrants arrives into Dover Harbour
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Mark then described the scene as three lifeboats queued up outside a harbour ready to unload crowds of migrants onto British shores.
He said: “Our producer in Kent told us that he saw back to back arrivals. That is the proof. The confirmation of these vessels unloading migrant after migrant.
“They are taken to the processing centre at Dover Harbour then to Manston in Kent and then places in hotel accommodation or local authority accommodation will be found for them, that might take a while.
“As we get into the summer, you will have back to back days where significant numbers cross the neck and you will see a bottleneck of getting these migrants out into accommodation if there is any available.”