The surge in perilous crossings that resulted in 27 people found drowned in the English Channel underscores the challenge facing the U.K. and France in dissuading migrants from trying to reach Britain
PARIS—France has set up barbed wire, thermal detectors and police patrols at the tunnel entry under the English Channel and at the port of Calais to keep migrants from using what were once the most popular routes for clandestine migration to Britain.
Those measures, officials and analysts say, have spurred migrants to take a far more dangerous route: boarding small boats from the beaches of northern France to cross the channel’s storm-tossed waters.
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