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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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‘I’m going to die’: a migrant recalls his perilous Channel crossing

‘I’m going to die’: a migrant recalls his perilous Channel crossing

LUCY MARKS and NATALIE THOMAS SITTING in a small boat with 22 other migrants, lashed by driving rain and heaving waves, Abdullah al Badri thought he was going to drown in the English Channel. The 27-year-old Bedouin from Kuwait had been travelling across Europe for four years, a stateless refugee looking for a new home. "It was really horrible. It was a way of dying," al Badri told Reuters as he recalled his crossing to Britain from France. He doesn't know his exact departure point, but says it was near a forest. "It was really not easy to go in…
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