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Footage from this morning's rescue operation showed fear and terror etched onto the faces of the mostly young men and boys who risked their lives to make it to Britain.
The Home Office is spending an eyewatering £6.8million a day to keep people in hotels after the asylum backlog soared past 120,000.
The number of migrants to have crossed the English Channel in small boats to the UK so far this year has now surpassed 43.400, according to official government figures.
Royal Navy, Border Force and Royal National Lifeboat Instution (RNLI) lifeboats are currently out in the middle of the English Channel as people smugglers take advantage of the clearing weather.
Border Force officials could be seen bringing groups of people into shore at Dover this morning, after the latest government figures showed there were no arrivals at all on Thursday.