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More than 800 migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday in just 15 boats, the highest number on a single day so far this year.
TikTok vide showed asylum seeker Rahat Popal being picked up by a UK lifeboat crew before being taken ashore in Dover, and finally relaxing on a bed in a hotel funded by British taxpayers.
The packed vessel was intercepted in the Channel on Sunday and brought to Dover, sources told the Mail. It highlights the growing disregard for human life by traffickers.
Up to 39 people arrived in Dungeness on the Romney Marsh after being intercepted in the Channel in thick fog, taking the total crossing this year to over 18,000.
A total of 16 boats arrived on the south coast of England on Monday as smugglers on the French coast sought to capitalise on fine weather conditions.