Around 80 migrants rescued in English Channel after making risky crossing from France in small boat
Associated PressJUN 13 2024
According to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, at least 12 migrants died Tuesday and two are missing after their boat capsized off the coast of France while trying to cross the English Channel to England.
The boat, which was carrying dozens of migrants, was first spotted by a French government-operated ship, with the French Navy deployed for a search and rescue mission that is still ongoing.
Before Tuesday's capsizing, 30 migrants had died this year while attempting to cross the Channel. This is out of 2,109 who have made the journey this year, which follows the 21,615 who made the journey last year.
For years the British government has responded to each reported migrant death with renewed calls for tougher border security, resulting in asylum seekers taking even more dangerous boat journeys. These migrants, who are fleeing war and persecution, will continue these trips no matter what, so it's up to French and British authorities to provide a safe passage way rather than lett them drown at sea.
While newspapers vigorously cover sad stories about boats capsizing, they refuse to report that mass migration is reshaping British communities into African and Middle Eastern ones. These migrants make up a disproportionate number of homeless people, murderers, and gang rapists, as well as squeeze native Englishmen out of an already struggling housing market.