Record 3,500 migrants arrived in July: Border Force intercepted 120 boats last ...

Record 3,500 migrants arrived in July: Border Force intercepted 120 boats last ...
Record 3,500 migrants arrived in July: Border Force intercepted 120 boats last ...

A record 3,500 migrants arrived in Britain across the Channel last month as the total number of people who have made the dangerous 21-mile journey from France so far this year hits a staggering 9,300.

The total number of crossings has already surpassed last year's record of 8,410, while in July Border Force intercepted more than 120 overcrowded boats of migrants from Africa and the Middle East.  

In a bid to handle the crisis, ministers will speed up deportations by bringing in new laws to ban migrants from judicial reviews of their rejected asylum applications to prevent lawyers making spurious claims.

Migrants whose appeals have been rejected by the immigration tribunals will no longer be able to challenge the decision if they have been refused permission to appeal, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

The tactic has accounted for hundreds of cases which have delayed the removal of rejected asylum seekers or illegal migrants who crossed the Channel for months at enormous cost to the British taxpayer.

Ministry of Justice data showed just three per cent of such immigration claims are successful in the high courts compared with 50 per cent for other cases. 

The changes will be part of the Government's bill reforming judicial review and overturn a landmark 2012 Supreme Court ruling which allowed for these cases to be subject to judicial review. 

A record 3,500 migrants arrived in Britain across the Channel last month as the total number of people who have made the dangerous 21-mile journey from France so far this year hits a staggering 9,300 (stock image)

A record 3,500 migrants arrived in Britain across the Channel last month as the total number of people who have made the dangerous 21-mile journey from France so far this year hits a staggering 9,300 (stock image)

A view of one of two areas now being used at a warehouse facility in Dover, Kent, for boats used by people thought to be migrants

A view of one of two areas now being used at a warehouse facility in Dover, Kent, for boats used by people thought to be migrants

Officials claimed the ruling had prevented the swift processing of immigration and asylum cases, with legal challenges causing delays and leaving the Home Office unable to remove people from the country.

An official review found that just 0.2 per cent of 5,500 judicial review cases since 2012 were successful - the vast majority being immigration and asylum cases. 

Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said: 'The Government has pledged to ensure that the courts are not open to abuse and delay. Today we are delivering on that commitment.

'We are giving judges the powers they need to ensure the Government is held to account, while tackling those who seek to frustrate the court process.'

The Government's judicial review bill comes on top of a proposed crack-down on illegal migrants from using small boats to cross the Channel and claim asylum or long-term residency in Britain.  

In a bid to manage the huge numbers of migrants coming over from Continental Europe, dozens of asylum seekers are being housed in a hotel in one of London's most upmarket postcodes.

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