ExBorder

Ex-Border Force chief: Migrant arrivals will hit crisis levels without joint patrol treaty

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Migrant arrivals will hit crisis levels if UK and France fail to agree joint Channel patrols, warns former head of Border Force More than 200 migrants managed to cross to Britain on Thursday alone in surge Ex-Border Force chief Tony Smith urged Britain to agree new joint patrol treaty  He claimed that the current approach  … Read more

Ex-Border Force chief says migrants crossing the English Channel are ‘major threat’ to UK borders

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Tony Smith CBE, former head of the Border Force, told a committee today that he cannot see an immediate end to the crisis The ex-Border Force chief has today said migrants crossing the English Channel are a ‘major threat’ to UK borders as another boat is picked up today, taking the total number to a … Read more