There is “no quick fix” to stop illegal immigrants arriving in the UK by crossing the English Channel in small boats, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday, one day after the deadliest incident yet in the crisis.
A dinghy carrying illegal immigrants capsized off the coast of the French port city of Calais on Wednesday, causing 27 deaths. The French prosecutor’s office said the dead included 17 men, seven women, and two boys and one girl believed to be teenagers.
