1,100 Illegal Immigrants Arrive on Small Boats in Past 3 Days

1,100 Illegal Immigrants Arrive on Small Boats in Past 3 Days
A group of people thought to be illegal immigrants are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, from the RNLI Dungeness Lifeboat, following a small boat incident in the Channel, on April 27, 2023. Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Patricia Devlin
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More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been detected arriving in the UK on small boats this year—with 1,100 in the past three days.

The jump in arrivals is still 1,000 fewer than those recorded at the same time in 2022.

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