Home and Security editor Mark White has warned of a "national security risk" posed by the surge in illegal Channel crossings, highlighting concerns over unidentified migrants arriving in the UK.Mark told GB News that many young men crossing the Channel are instructed by people traffickers to discard their identification documents, leaving authorities with no knowledge of who they actually are.He emphasised that security services across Europe have identified individuals posing national security risks among migrant populations, including former Isis fighters who previously operated in Syria.The warning comes after a staggering 1,194 migrants arrived in the UK on 18 small boats on Saturday, marking one of the highest single-day totals on record.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00Yes, there's no doubt. Best question of that news conference or statement that Keir Stammer gave the Q&A afterwards.
00:10There will be those who say, don't be ridiculous.
00:13How can you possibly equate the issues around these migrants coming across the English Channel with actually the defence of the realm?
00:22You can easily do that because there is very much a national security risk in what we're seeing.
00:28Many of these young men are told by the people traffickers to throw their identification documents away.
00:37So we have no idea who the majority of these people coming to this country actually are.
00:43And we know, according to security services around Europe, that there are people who pose a risk to national security in various countries,
00:53often former ISIS fighters in Syria, who've come back into European countries, who are coming across in the likes of the small boats into the UK.
01:04And we only need to look around Europe at the moment to see all of the terrorist attacks that have been committed recently,
01:12particularly in Germany by asylum seekers and migrants, more than half a dozen in the last 10 months alone.
01:20Here in this country, we've had terrorist attacks involving asylum seekers, such as in Reading a few years back,
01:29the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Hartlepool, there is absolutely a national security risk in what we're seeing playing out on the Channel.
01:38And we saw that in the Channel this weekend, the most incredible scenes of almost 1,200 mainly young men coming across,
01:47trying to break in to the country by circumventing our border controls.
01:51There's been a substantial degree of pushback.