Two years ago, just over 8,000 people arrived in the UK on small boats
(Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)The crisis of asylum seekers making the dangerous journey across the Channel in small boats to reach the UK is heightening as concern grows about the conditions in which migrants are living after arrival.
This week, it was revealed that there is serious overcrowding at the Manston asylum processing site in Kent. The facility can hold up to 1,600 people but is housing about 4,000, according to Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale.
