More migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year than in the whole of 2023, Home Office figures show.
It comes after 424 people crossed the Channel yesterday, taking the 2024 total up to now to 29,578.
In 2023, a total of 29,437 migrants made the perilous crossing.
In 2022, 45,728 people crossed.
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