More than 300 small boat migrants launched from French and Belgian coastlines to avoid police beach patrols

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More than 300 small boat migrants launched from French and Belgian coastlines to avoid police beach patrols.

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Hundreds of small boat migrants launched over a massive stretch of French and Belgian coastline today, in an effort to avoid police beach patrols.GB News counted around 315 illegal migrants as they were brought to the Border Force processing centre at Dover harbour across the day.It follows 55 migrants who arrived yesterday, and takes the total number of illegal arrivals for the year so far to almost 6,800.A senior maritime source told the People's Channel: "People smugglers pushed off boats from well into Belgium, all the way down to a beach at Treport, south of the Somme.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "That's almost 100 miles of coastline the criminal gangs are using for launches on the same day."It's an obvious effort to avoid the beach patrols, which are normally concentrated around the Dunkirk and Calais areas."The latest surge in crossings comes a little more than a week after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood signed a three-year agreement to pay France £662 million to boost...

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