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GB News Home and Security editor Mark White has delivered a stark assessment of the deteriorating situation in the English Channel, warning that migrant crossings are worsening daily with boats continuing to arrive.Speaking to GB News, Mark revealed that four additional small boats were attempting to reach UK waters even as he reported on the crisis.He explained: "As we speak, there are four more small boats in the English Channel attempting to reach UK waters. They’re making slow progress, and that’s probably because they’re weighed down with migrants."The boats we saw arriving yesterday had more than 70 people on board each. Just under 600 migrants crossed yesterday alone."READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00well things certainly hotting up here there's no doubt about it as we speak there are four more

00:07small boats in the English Channel attempting to make it to UK waters making slow progress and

00:13that's probably because they are weighed down with migrants the boats that we saw coming in here

00:21yesterday had more than 70 migrants per boat just under 600 migrants in total came across

00:30yesterday and that has pushed the number of migrants who crossed the Channel so far this year

00:36to 20,000 to more than 19,000 and we may now hit that 20,000 figure by sometime on Tuesday with the

00:47the way things are going and that would be very significant because actually for the whole of

00:52last year the total was 36,000 which was of course bad enough but we're already at 20,000 we're not

01:00even into the supposed hottest flattest calm months of the year which come obviously in July August

01:08September even into October where very significant numbers of migrants will cross so there is

01:16no doubt this is a very significant crisis that the Prime Minister is grappling with we know that

01:23the French President Emmanuel Macron will be in London next week for his state visit at which we're

01:31expected the government to announce this new deal with the French that would be some sort of a returns

01:38deal the exact detail of it we still really have to learn but it's supposedly a one-in-one-out policy

01:46critics saying that how on earth is that a deterrent when you're still going to take as many migrants

01:53into the country as would have come by small boats anyway. Yeah Mark the records have been smashed

01:59this year so far obviously Keir Starmer is still banging on about smashing the gangs this is just yet

02:07another fallacy this new stuff the French police are supposedly going to be using tear gas to push

02:12migrants away from using the small boats but it's not going to stop them is it really let's face it

02:17well it'll delay them that's about all it will really do if we're honest here we did get an

02:26admission in recent weeks from the Prime Minister that the situation in the channel was deteriorating

02:32a real obvious statement there a kind of statement of the basic facts that anybody can see for

02:40themselves with the numbers arriving as you say at record levels and yes the French police have been

02:49getting a bit more robust over the last couple of weeks firing tear gas and pepper spray in an effort

02:55to try to disperse the migrants this pushback policy by the way of pushing small boats in shallow

03:02water back to shore we don't even know if that will actually come to fruition it's supposed to

03:09begin in a day or two's time next month but the problem is there is a legal challenge in the French

03:17courts just like the UK face multiple challenges over its Rwanda scheme well the pushback policy

03:24is being challenged in the French courts so that might delay things it might scupper that plan

03:30all together and all of the while the migrants keep on coming and even if the pushback policy

03:37was enacted and was successful what is it really going to do except disperse all of those migrants

03:44back into the dunes back into the camps they'll meet up again with the people smugglers and they'll

03:49try another day until they eventually get over to the UK

03:53you

WATCH: Mark White issues warning as migrant crossings surge - 'They will not stop!'

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