Since Sir Kier Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party took power in July, more than 10,000 people who came to Britain illegally from France have crossed the English Channel.
Even though Prime Minister Starmer said he would stop the boat migrant disaster in the Channel, since Labour won the election on July 4, 2024 illegal immigrants have been able to get to the UK on boats run by people smugglers that left from the French coast.
The number of aliens crossing the Channel increased by 65 on Monday, bringing the total for the year to about 23,598, according to estimates from the PA News agency. This is about the same number of aliens crossing as there were at this point in 2023, when 23,940 aliens did so.
Eight migrants killed over the weekend when their weak rubber dinghy tore apart in the middle of the Channel. This tragedy comes after more illegal crosses. Six more people, including a baby 10 months old, were taken to the hospital because of what happened.
It had been less than two weeks since another migrant boat sank, killing 12 people, six of them children and a pregnant woman.
In order to deal with the problem, the new left-wing government plans to put more money into police operations that go after human trafficking networks on both sides of the Channel.
Over the weekend, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, said that £75 million would be taken from the now-cancelled Conservative plan to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda and used to hire more border guards.
Even though they gave up on the Rwanda plan and the hundreds of millions of dollars that were sent to Kigali with it, Prime Minister Keir Starmer was said to be “very interested” in a similar plan that the conservative government of Giorgia Meloni was planning to use to send illegal immigrants to Albania to have their asylum claims processed. He was in Rome this week on a diplomatic and fact-finding mission.
