(BBC) Four small boats with 132 people on board crossed the English Channel on Saturday, the Home Office said.
The Home Office has released figures showing that 28,526 people made the crossing from France in small boats [in] 2021, treble the number in 2020.
This compares to 665 migrants who were found at UK ports in lorries or shipping containers.
So far this year over 1,400 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats.
The Home Office has refused to comment on whether the arrivals were taken to a new processing centre in Manston, the BBC’s Simon Jones said.
