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A group of charity rowers were stopped and searched by a Border Force patrol boat after MP Rupert Lowe mistakenly identified them as “illegal immigrants” on social media.

People detained after arriving in small boat expected to be returned within three weeks, says Home Office

Multiple people are understood to have been detained under the new ‘one in, one out’ deal after crossing the English Channel

The first detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.

Pictures taken on Wednesday afternoon show a UK Border Force boat ferrying migrants including children into the Port of Dover

Some asylum seekers will be sent back across Channel for first time under treaty agreed with French president

Crime agency says there were more than 60 investigations into at-sea drop-offs last year with 34 people arrested

Operation also shed unique light on backgrounds of those involved in running drugs into UK from ‘mother ships’

The crossings continue as the number of people arriving this year so far nears 25,000.

On a cold, wet November evening, Issa Mohamed Omar and more than 30 other men, women and children set off from their informal camp near the northern French port city of Dunkirk. They walked through the darkness in near-silence for around two hours, until they reached the beach from where…

Albanian national Bleda Bega was captaining the 23ft vessel when it was intercepted in the English Channel en route to Newquay