More than 1,000 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel since yesterday morning, GB News can exclusively reveal.
After the arrival of more than 600 on Thursday, a further 400 have either already crossed or are currently heading toward UK waters.
The arrivals are the first migrant boats to cross for a fortnight, after bad weather prevented people smuggling operations in the Channel.
In one incident yesterday, 94 migrants had to be rescued by maritime authorities after their boat broke apart.
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It is understood the vessel was just four miles from the coast at Dunkirk.
Three of those rescued were treated in a French hospital for hypothermia.
It takes the total arrivals this year to around 38,000.
That figure is already well above the 36,816 who arrived in the whole of last year.
Migrants were pictured boarding small boats in northern France this morning
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