(BBC) Almost 700 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Wednesday, the Home Office has confirmed.
The French authorities stopped 255 people in seven boats with UK authorities intercepting or rescuing 695 people in 22 small boats.
Children were among the 504 people who reached UK shores on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Coastguard said it was co-ordinating further rescue operations off Kent on Thursday.
So far this year more than 22,344 migrants have crossed the English Channel, compared to 8,404 people in the whole of 2020.
For the second day in a row, migrants were seen landing on the beach at Dungeness.
