{"id":1503825,"date":"2022-06-05T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503825"},"modified":"2022-06-05T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T12:51:19","slug":"number-of-illegals-entering-united-kingdom-nears-11000-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/number-of-illegals-entering-united-kingdom-nears-11000-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Illegals Entering United kingdom Nears 11,000 THIS SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnumber-of-illegals-entering-united-kingdom-nears-11000-this-season%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Almost 10,000 people have entered the UK illegally by crossing the English Channel in small boats this year, official figures show.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday, a total of 9,988 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illegal-immigrants\">illegal immigrants<\/a> arrived in small boats in 2022,\u00a0according to the analysis of government data by the PA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a04,035 of these people arrived after April 14, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the government\u2019s plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/uk-to-send-illegal-immigrants-to-rwanda-to-deter-human-smuggling_4403792.html\">put illegal immigrants on one-way flights to Rwanda<\/a> in order to deter people smuggling by small boats.<\/p>\n<p>Former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib questioned the resettlement plan on Friday, telling Talk TV it\u2019s \u201cnot actually working\u201d in deterring channel crossings.<\/p>\n<p>In its daily update on Saturday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed that 40 people were brought ashore on Friday in a single boat. It followed the arrival of 139 illegal immigrants in six boats on Thursday and 198 in four boats on Wednesday, bringing this week\u2019s total to 658.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 28,526 people made the crossing in 2021, compared with 8,466 in 2020, 1,843 in 2019, and 299 in 2018, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-march-2022\/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-march-2022#how-many-migrants-were-detected-arriving-in-the-uk-via-small-boats\">Home Office figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Between January and March this year, 4,540 people were found arriving by small boats, more than triple the number during the same three months in\u00a02021 (1,363).<\/p>\n<p>November 2021 saw the highest monthly number of channel crossings in the last four years, with 6,971 people successfully making the journey.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD defines a \u201csmall boat\u201d as one of a number of vessels used by individuals who cross the English Channel \u201cwith the aim of gaining entry to the UK without a visa or permission to enter\u2014either directly by landing in the UK or having been intercepted at sea by the authorities and brought ashore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most common small vessels detected making these types of crossings are rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBs), dinghies, and kayaks.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s official figure doesn\u2019t include those who failed to reach the UK after being intercepted by French authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced on Wednesday that the first flight carrying illegal immigrants to Rwanda is expected to take off on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>If they are successfully removed from the UK, the dozens of immigrants will be provided with a support package,\u00a0including up to five years of training, accommodation, and health care on arrival, according to the Home Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office previously said it will carry out a case-by-case risk assessment when determining someone\u2019s eligibility for relocation and take any vulnerabilities, including disabilities, sexual orientation, and gender reassignment status, into account.<\/p>\n<p>But the tactic has attracted wide criticisms from opposition parties, charities, Conservative backbenchers, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-lily-zhou\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lily Zhou is a freelance writer mostly covering UK news for The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 10,000 people have entered the UK illegally by crossing the English Channel in small boats this year, official figures show.By Friday, a total of 9,988 illegal immigrants arrived in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}