In the wake of one of the deadliest incidents to unfold off their shores in recent years, British and French leaders vow to ramp up efforts to put a stop to the migrant crossings.
vowed to stop the smugglers facilitating the dangerous sea crossings from “getting away with murder.”
While migrants and asylum seekers once relied heavily on using Eurostar trains and being smuggled onto trucks to reach British soil, McNeil said a crackdown at the French-British border has seen people increasingly turn to crossing the channel as a faster and more reliable route to the U.K. "Once it became clear that the small boat worked, you saw a very, very rapid escalation," McNeil said.
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