Migrant crossings: Channel boats bring 364 more people

(BBC) Eleven boats with 364 migrants on board crossed the English Channel to reach Kent on Sunday, the Home Office said.

French authorities also stopped 16 vessels, preventing over 500 further migrants from making the crossing.

It follows 40 boat crossings on Friday and Saturday which saw 1,115 people make the journey.

The Home Office said there had been nearly 300 arrests and 65 convictions related to small-boat crossings so far this year.

Dan O’Mahoney, clandestine channel threat commander, said the government was determined to tackle the “unacceptable rise in dangerous Channel crossings.”

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