82 migrants cross English Channel just days after 'weak' Labour opens citizenship pathway to illegals

And the figures come just one day after 47 migrants made the journey over from France in one small boat.

Images obtained by GB News show the Border Force vessel Hurricane sailing back in to Dover - and unloading several people onto the docks.

Earlier this week, Labour's new Border Security Bill took heavy flak from migration hardliners Rupert Lowe and Suella Braverman.

In the face of a number of new anti-terror-inspired crackdowns to "smash the gangs", Braverman said the Bill "removes all the security and provisions we had put into place to keep the UK safe and is a disgrace".

"To put it bluntly, it is an insult to the British people. It shamefully opens up our borders and disgracefully allows illegal immigrants to become citizens," she added.

"If you enter the UK illegally, you should be detained, deported, and banned from ever returning."

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A Home Office statement on illegal crossings reads: "We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.

"The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay.

"We will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice."

While the department's defence of criticism of the new Bill reads: "The new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill introduces workable measures to strengthen cross-system, operational efforts to tighten border security, enhance upstream work with international partners and help ensure a properly functioning, secure immigration system.

"The Illegal Migration Act has largely not been commenced (including this measure on age assessments); nor will it be under this Government's policy which focuses on delivering long-term, credible policies that restore order to the asylum system.

"We have robust processes in place to verify and assess an individual's age where there is doubt, including the National Age Assessment Board, and have maintained the provisions on scientific assessments from the Nationality & Borders Act 2022."