{"id":1504772,"date":"2022-06-06T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1504772"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:09:41","slug":"more-than-10000-illegal-boat-migrants-arrive-in-britain-this-year-almost-as-much-as-2019-and-2020-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-10000-illegal-boat-migrants-arrive-in-britain-this-year-almost-as-much-as-2019-and-2020-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 10,000 Illegal Boat Migrants Arrive in Britain This Year, Almost as Much as 2019 and 2020 Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fmore-than-10000-illegal-boat-migrants-arrive-in-britain-this-year-almost-as-much-as-2019-and-2020-combined%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=1504772&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In yet another record-breaking milestone, the number of illegal boat migrants that have landed in Britain has topped 10,000 since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly totalling nearly the entire number of illegals to cross the English Channel in 2019 and 2020 combined, over 10,000 illegal aliens have landed on the beaches of Britain since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10883551\/More-10-000-migrants-crossed-Channel-year.html\">calculations<\/a> from the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, following another 600 landings this week, the total for the year has reached\u00a010,057, compared to 8,466 in 2020 and 1,843 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The tabloid noted that at this time last year, around 4,200 had landed and that the 10,000 milestone was not hit until August.<\/p>\n<p>The furious rate of boats setting off from French beaches is on pace to meet internal projections from the Home Office, which warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/19\/uk-govt-warned-65000-illegal-boat-migrants-may-land-this-year\/\">65,000<\/a> could reach the UK via the waterway by the end of the year. Others, including Brexit\u2019s Nigel Farage, have said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/21\/over-100000-illegal-boat-migrants-will-reach-uk-this-year-former-border-force-chief\/\">as many as 100,000<\/a> could land in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The milestone comes ten days before the UK government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/06\/01\/uk-plans-first-migrant-removals-to-rwanda-on-june-14th\/\">promised to send<\/a> the first batch of illegals to Rwanda, a controversial scheme which the government is hoping will act as a deterrent for future attempts to enter the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>So far, around 100 boat migrants have been informed by the government that they will be flown to asylum processing centres in the\u00a0the East African nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UK Asylum Decision Backlog Up 300 Per Cent in Four Years <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AFofv7mCLT\">https:\/\/t.co\/AFofv7mCLT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1530869057771081729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It remains to be seen if the Rwanda plan will get off the ground, however, with leftist charities, unions and activist lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/05\/20\/surprise-first-transfer-of-migrants-from-uk-to-rwanda-halted-by-legal-challenges\/\">launching legal challenges<\/a> to prevent the deportation flights from occurring.<\/p>\n<p>As the date of the first planeload approaches, there have also been a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/06\/04\/migrants-attempting-suicide-when-faced-with-deportation-to-rwanda-claim\/\">stories<\/a> in the mainstream media of migrants saying they are considering suicide over the prospect of being deported to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday, the left-wing <em>Guardian<\/em> newspaper published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jun\/05\/rwanda-uk-asylum-seeker-offshored\">article<\/a> purporting to have been written by one such illegal immigrant from Iran who has been notified of plans to be shipped to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am considering suicide to avoid being forcibly sent there. And I can tell you that most of the other asylum seekers who are in the same situation as me are also considering suicide. We feel there is no other choice for us. The Home Office has locked us all up in detention centres; everyone is feeling very bad,\u201d the boat migrant wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not what we ever expected of Britain. We all fled our home countries for one reason only \u2013 because our lives were in danger. We hoped that coming to the UK would save us but it looks like we were wrong about this,\u201d the migrant maligned.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Europe is bracing for another migrant crisis, with the interior ministers of Cyprus, Greece,\u00a0Italy, Malta, and Spain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/06\/05\/eu-interior-ministers-concrete-measures-needed-as-hunger-might-bring-more-migrants-from-af\">meeting<\/a> over the weekend in Venice to discuss solutions to the impending waves of migrants amid food shortages in Africa due in part to grain shortages in the fallout of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Hurdles and Barriers\u2019 \u2014 UK\u2019s Rwanda Migrant Will \u2018Take Time\u2019 to Implement, Admits Home Secretary<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zZR0UJ8ysg\">https:\/\/t.co\/zZR0UJ8ysg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1524303294411292674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another record-breaking milestone, the number of illegal boat migrants that have landed in Britain has topped 10,000 since the start of the year. 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