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Miriam Burrell

900 Afghans crossed Channel this year but ‘many will be abandoned under lllegal Migration Bill’ - thinktank

More than 900 Afghans have crossed the Channel this year - the majority of all small boat crossings - but many would be abandoned by the Home Office under the Illegal Migration Bill, a think tank has said.

The majority (24 per cent) of 3,793 small boat crossings recorded by the Home Office between January and March 2023 were made by Afghan nationals, statistics revealed on Monday.

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