A staggering 2,000 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel illegally in just over a week, GB News can exclusively reveal.
That number accounts for half the total of 4,000 Channel migrants who have made the voyage from France since the beginning of the year.
Among those who arrived in the past week is a young Palestinian man, with alleged extremist links.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said it had uncovered evidence that Abu Wadei had posted anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate messages on his social media accounts.
The Home Office has not confirmed whether the asylum seeker was detained by authorities on his arrival into Dover harbour.
For an unprecedented ninth straight day, more migrant boats have arrived in UK waters.
GB News can confirm that around 240 migrants crossed from France on Sunday in four small boats.
It follows 174 who arrived in three small boats on Saturday.
The latest arrivals take the number of migrants who have made the voyage since Saturday 1 March to 2,078.
It takes the total for the year to more than 4,100, a record number of small boat crossings at this point in any year since the Channel migrant crisis began in 2016.
By 9 March last year, 3,358 migrants had made the illegal journey to the UK.
This year's arrivals so far are now 20% ahead of the total at this point in 2024.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has criticised the Labour Government's "smash the gangs" policy.
The Tory MP said Sir Keir Starmer's government had "lost control of our borders."
Mr Philip said a Conservative government would stop foreign criminals from using the Human Rights Act to stay in the UK.
Commenting on the case of Palestinian Abu Wadei, he said: "This man should be immediately returned to Palestine, but he will no doubt concoct some absurd human rights claim that the courts will accept."
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said that Abu Wadei had previously posted 'death to all Jews' and posed for photographs with automatic weapons.
The campaign group also claims to have uncovered evidence that the young Palestinian had previously spoken at a rally led by the former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who helped masterminded the 7 October terror attacks.
A Home Office spokesperson would not confirm whether he had been arrested by UK authorities.
In a statement, they said: "While it is a long-standing rule that we never comment on individual cases or operational matters, the British public can be reassured that we take all steps necessary at all times to protect the nation's security."
They added: "We are committed to ending small boat crossings which undermine our border security, and restoring order to the asylum system to ensure that the rules are respected and enforced."