UK Border Force ‘Little More Than Taxi Service for Illegal Migrants’: Lawmaker

UK Border Force ‘Little More Than Taxi Service for Illegal Migrants’: Lawmaker
Border Force officials unload migrants that have been intercepted in the English Channel in Dover, England, on Sept. 22, 2020. Luke Dray/Getty Images
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Britain’s Border Force is “little more than a taxi service for illegal migrants,” a Conservative MP said on Monday, as he urged the government to take action to put an end to the “horrible trade” of people smuggling.

The Home Office is investigating an incident in which migrants attempting to cross the English Channel were reportedly picked up in French waters by the UK Border Force and taken to the English port of Dover.