A Border Force vessel assists a group of migrants on board their inflatable dinghy in the Channel today.
A Reuters photographer in Dover saw a Border Force boat arrive carrying a group of migrants wearing life jackets. A blue inflatable dinghy was towed in by a separate vessel. Stephen Hale, chief executive of the charity Refugee Action, said the numbers crossing the sea to Britain – about 4,000 so far this year – were tiny in the context of what he described as a global refugee crisis.
Many of the migrants seeking to reach Britain come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and countries in Africa, fleeing poverty, persecution or war. Some stand a chance of being granted asylum, while others, considered illegal economic migrants, are unlikely to be allowed to remain in Britain.Britain’s interior ministry has asked the military to help deal with the migrant boats, although it has not explained what it wanted them to do.
Johnson said it was very difficult to send people away when they had arrived illegally, suggesting he wanted that to change.
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