(BBC) More than 2,000 migrants have crossed the Channel on small boats in June, setting a new record.
The previous highest monthly total was set in September 2020, when 1,951 people made the crossing.
Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke said the dangerous crossings would not end until migrants and traffickers were taught “they can’t break into Britain.”
But Bridget Chapman of Kent Refugee Action Network said: “We have a duty to accept people arriving on our shores.”
UK authorities dealt with 107 people in four boats on Monday, while the French intercepted two vessels carrying 40 people.
