Border Force officers help a group of migrants collected from a small boat in the Channel off their vessel at DoverImmigration officials became so overwhelmed with migrants crossing the Channel in small boats last week that they were forced to register them in a public car park. They had to order takeaway pizza for the arrivals while they waited at the processing centre in Dover because it does not have cooking facilities. SponsoredBorder Force officials have warned there is a “serious risk of unrest” breaking out among asylum seekers at Dover’s holding centre as concerns grow about overcrowding. The complex migrant crisis in the ChannelThe reception centre at Tug Haven, where migrants are taken for an initial assessment after crossing the Channel, has room for about 380 people. It did not have enough space to process the 430 migrants who reached the UK on July 19 — an all-time daily record

Source: The Times July 28, 2021 12:04 UTC