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# migrant crossings

This year

2023

French and UK leaders try to overcome Brexit tensions at first high-level summit in five years

Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak met today in Paris to discuss Ukraine and migration.

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Mar 10th 2023, 11:44 AM

Last year

2022

DUP's Sammy Wilson voices support for UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Potential asylum seekers arriving across the English Channel on small boats could be sent to Rwanda for processing.

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Updated

Apr 19th 2022, 6:28 PM

All time

Two arrested on suspicion of arranging English Channel migrant crossings

In December, around 230 people tried to make the 33-kilometre journey from France to Britain.

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Jan 3rd 2019, 7:06 AM