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‘We have no choice’: migrants undeterred by UK threat to send boats back to France

‘We have no choice’: migrants undeterred by UK threat to send boats back to France

RICHARD LOUGH and FORREST CRELLIN MUSTAFA Suleiman, 21, is resolute in his determination to reach Britain and won't be deterred from London's threats to intercept boats illegally carrying migrants in the Channel and send them back to France. Suleiman, who fled Sudan's Darfur region in 2019, has tried to make the perilous journey through some of the world's busiest shipping lanes twice in the past year. Both times, he was thwarted by French police before making it off the beach. "We will try and try until the last day of our life," Suleiman told Reuters in a camp on wasteland…
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Concerned about Channel crossings, UK minister vows to toughen asylum rules

Concerned about Channel crossings, UK minister vows to toughen asylum rules

ESTELLE SHIRBON  BRITAIN’S interior minister has pledged to reform what she described as a broken asylum system and to stop people arriving through illegal routes from making "endless legal claims to remain in our country". Home Secretary Priti Patel, who presents herself as tough on issues of law, order and immigration, has denounced as unacceptable a rise seen during the summer in the number of small boats carrying migrants across the Channel from France. The numbers attempting the crossing, about 5,000 so far this year, are tiny compared with migrant flows in many other parts of the world, and human…
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