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Home Secretary ‘recycling the same failed response’ to Channel crossings in new deal with France
Braverman's new arrangement will be ‘more dangerous’ for asylum-seekers and more profitable for ‘ruthless smuggling gangs’, campaigners warn
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture date: Monday November 14, 2022

SUELLA BRAVERMAN’S multimillion-pound deal with France will fail to stop small-boat crossings and risks putting more money into the hands of traffickers, campaigners warned today. 

The Home Secretary signed a deal with her French counterpart allowing British officers to join patrols along the French coast for the first time. 

The arrangement promises a 40 per cent increase in the number of patrols deployed to detect small boats about to attempt the crossing to southern England.

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