(BBC) Using Royal Navy ships to help stop migrants crossing the English Channel is “dangerous” and “won’t change anything,” a Calais politician says.
On Saturday the Home Office asked defence chiefs for help to make crossings in small boats “unviable.”
The Home Office says 18 Syrian migrants in a boat were picked up by Border Force on Monday morning.
More than 4,000 people have successfully crossed the Channel from France in small boats so far this year.
Pierre-Henri Dumont, the National Assembly member for Calais, told the BBC: “What is the British navy going to do if it sees a small boat? Is it going to shoot the boat? Is it going to enter French waters?”
