Crossings within the Channel have elevated over the previous three years, with 41,472 folks arriving within the UK by small boat in 2025. This has prompted criticism that enforcement by French authorities has acquired worse.
While some UK politicians argue France ought to be doing extra, its authorities has mentioned police are intercepting boats at sea, aiming to cease them earlier than migrants get onboard.
On Saturday, 602 migrants arrived in Dover on 9 boats, bringing the overall variety of arrivals up to now in 2026 to greater than 6,000.
Under the earlier deal, which was signed in 2023, the UK paid £476m to France for additional patrols to disrupt migrant smuggling gangs.
The association, which noticed round 700 regulation enforcement officers patrolling seashores in France, was anticipated to run out subsequent month.
