Thursday 24 November 2022 07:17 PM One in three migrants crossing English Channel in small boats is Albanian trends now
Thursday 24 November 2022 07:17 PM One in three migrants crossing English Channel in small boats is Albanian trends now
One in three of migrants crossing English Channel in small boats is Albanian and on some days they are four out of five, new Home Office figures show Albanians accounted for over a third of people in Channel crossings this year On some days in recent months, the figure has been as high as 80 per cent This is a steep increase from three per cent in 2021 and one per cent in 2020 Number of migrants entering UK dried up in November due to poor weather
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Albanians accounted for just over a third of people detected crossing the English Channel in small boats in the first nine months of the year, new figures have shown.
They also made up nearly half of those detected in July to September.
It is a sharp increase on previous years, with only 3% of arrivals in 2021 being of Albanian nationality, and just 1% in 2020.
The figures, which have been published by the Home Office, show there were 33,029 small boat arrivals in the UK from January to September this year.
Of this total, 11,241 (35%) were Albanian nationals.
Almost all of these have arrived since May.
