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Nigel Farage has issued a chilling warning as this weekend noticed the best variety of unlawful migrants cross the Channel in a single day in 2025. The Reform UK chief shared his ideas alongside a viral video of what gave the impression to be principally males being helped off a UK Border Force vessel onto British territory.

Posting on X, Mr Farage mentioned complained that “no one” was speaking in regards to the “600 young men” arriving in Britain, however he warned “many of them will do us harm” in a blunt seven-word comment. UK Border Force ships typically intercept small boats carrying migrants as a result of the inflatables are sometimes dangerously over-crowded and unseaworthy. At least 10 folks have died to this point this yr making the perilous crossing.

Echoing his social gathering chief’s ideas, Reform UK MP Lee Anderson shared Mr Farage’s put up on X in the present day (Sunday) and commented: “Another 600 yesterday. It’s an invasion.”

According to Home Office figures, the variety of migrants arriving within the UK after crossing the English Channel has set a brand new document for the primary 4 months of the yr.

There have been 8,064 arrivals to this point in 2025, together with 656 on Saturday, in accordance with provisional knowledge.

This is already increased than the 7,567 individuals who crossed the Channel over January, February, March and April in 2024 – on the time, a document quantity for that interval.

It can be a leap on the 5,946 arrivals within the first 4 months of 2023, and the 6,691 in the identical interval in 2022.

The cumulative whole for 2025 to this point of 8,064 folks is up 46% on this level final yr as of Saturday (5,517) and 65% increased than at this stage in 2023 (4,899).

The 656 folks recorded to have made the journey in 11 boats on Saturday can be the best variety of arrivals on a single day to this point this yr. The day by day whole remains to be a way off the best variety of day by day crossings recorded, which was 1,305 on September 3, 2022.

The French coastguard mentioned in a press release 50 folks have been rescued at sea from numerous boats the place some migrants requested for assistance on Saturday.

All 28 passengers have been taken to Calais, in northern France, from one boat that obtained into issue, and 19 folks have been rescued on one other boat whereas the remainder onboard continued their journey. From one other boat, three folks have been taken to the quayside in Boulogne-sur-Mer, whereas others on board refused help and continued on their method, the coastguard mentioned.

The figures come because the Government has vowed to crack down on folks smuggling throughout the English Channel.

A Home Office spokesperson mentioned: “We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.

“The people-smuggling gangs don’t care if the susceptible folks they exploit dwell or die, so long as they pay and we’ll cease at nothing to dismantle their enterprise fashions and convey them to justice.

“That’s why this Government has put forward a serious, credible plan to finally restore order to our asylum system, including tougher enforcement powers, ramping up returns to their highest levels for more than half a decade and a major crackdown on illegal working to end the false promise of jobs used by gangs to sell spaces on boats.”