MIGRANTS have been spotted celebrating and snapping selfies onboard a dinghy heading across the Channel to Britain.
The boat was seen setting out from Gravelines, France, today, June 30.
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Pictures show one boat setting off from a beach in France packed with migrants wearing bright orange life jackets and holding flotation devices.
One of the men on the dinghy – sitting near the front – can be seen snapping a selfie in celebration.
Wider shots show the passengers waving goodbye to two men in the water – as French cops watch from the shore.
The pictures were taken amid mounting pressure on the government to address the small boats crisis after their “one in one out” deal with France was criticised by opposition.
PM Sir Keir Starmer has come under increasing pressure to turn the tide on a record year of small boats after promising to “smash the gangs” in the election last year.
Labour was recently slammed for signing up to a “migrant merry-go-round” with France.
Ministers are expected to reach a “one in, one-out” returns deal with the French in a bid to deter small boats.
But the deal was branded a “gimmick” by Tory Shadow Home Secretary Chris Phillip.
Starmer has previously admitted that the small boats crisis was “deteriorating.”
Record numbers of migrants have crossed the channel under Labour’s government.
Many are now finding easy work and free accommodation once reaching the UK, incentivising others to follow.
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A Sun investigation revealed how Channel migrants were picking up jobs as food delivery couriers earning up to £250 a week after arriving in the UK.
The investigation showed how migrants across the country could work illegally from asylum hotels as fast-food delivery drivers within hours of arriving in Britain.
Bosses of Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat were hauled in by the Home Office to discuss the issue.
A Sun reporter successfully completed a number of deliveries just last week after Pretending to be an asylum seeker from Afghanistan.
He purchased the login to the delivery app’s service from a seller called Danyel.
Dozens of migrants were intercepted in the English Channel in small boats today, June 30.
Border Force vessel Typhoon and the Dover RNLI lifeboat were seen bringing scores of people back into the Port of Dover on the hottest day of the year.
People smugglers took advantage of calm conditions to push migrants in dinghies across the busiest shipping lanes in the World in the Straits of Dover.
The crossings come after 585 people in eight boats were picked up on Sunday.
It takes the total number of small boat migrants who have been intercepted crossing the channel to 170,241 since 2018 when data was first recorded.
The number to arrive so far this year has now reached 19,103 in 330 boats – 4,291 in June alone.
Small boat migrants get illegal £1k-a-week delivery rider jobs within HOURS of landing in UK
CHANNEL migrants are working as fast-food delivery riders within hours of arriving in the UK while being housed and fed at taxpayer expense.
They rake in nearly £1,000 a week operating from asylum accommodation, used as hubs for black-market work on apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat.
Migrants in hotels are banned from working in any circumstances if they have been in Britain for less than 12 months.
Even those here longer are not allowed to legally work as delivery drivers.
But at hotels around the country, including in London, Bournemouth and Manchester — each one housing hundreds of asylum seekers — we snapped migrants in branded jackets for Deliveroo, JustEat and Uber Eats. Some rode £1,000 e-bikes while others used public-hire bicycles.
Last night Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “This crucial Sun investigation reveals yet another appalling abuse of our immigration system.
“These delivery companies know exactly what they’re doing. It’s a disgrace and they need to be made to feel consequences.”
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