More than 3,000 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK in June - the highest monthly total this year. Some 3,136 made the crossing on 76 boats in the 30-day period, with journeys taking place on 19 of those days, according to PA news agency analysis of government figures.
Of the 12,690 people who made the journey in the first half of this year, the second highest month for crossings was 3,074 in March. After navigating busy shipping lanes from France in small boats such as dinghies, 2,871 made the crossing in May, 2, 143 in April, 1,322 in January and 144 in February, according to Home Office figures for the first quarter of the year and subsequent data collected by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The highest month on record since 2018 was for 6,971 crossings in November 2021. The total for 2022 so far is more than five times the amount recorded between January and June 2020 (2,493) and more than double the six-month tally for the first half of last year (5,917).
