A Calais aid worker has candidly admitted there are "wrong'uns" among migrants in Calais while defending their decade of humanitarian work in the French port city.
Speaking to GB News host Patrick Christys, the self-described "lone wolf" volunteer acknowledged problems with Channel crossings but insisted they had never encountered criminals among those seeking to reach the UK.
"I know there's wrong'uns here, but there's wrong'uns everywhere," the aid worker told Christys during his reporting from Calais.
The aid worker described their experiences with migrants, saying: "There's some Afghans over there who have nothing in the world."
The aid worker made the shocking admission after being confronted by Patrick Christys
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"It's taken nine months for them to get here and they've been here for 28 years. They've even asked me if I will take them in the boot of my car, which I won't."
Despite a decade of working with migrants, they insisted: "I've been doing this 10 years. I'm a bit of a lone wolf but I have never met a murderer or rapist. There's good and bad in everyone."
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GB NEWSThe aid worker's comments come as Channel crossings reach a record high for the first five months of the year.
Some 601 people in 10 boats arrived in the UK on Monday, bringing the provisional total for 2025 so far to 12,407, according to Home Office figures.
This represents a 31 per cent increase on the same period last year (9,455) and is 81 per cent higher than the same point in 2023 (6,844).
One migrant died after a boat broke up in the Channel on Sunday, with 191 others rescued across Sunday and Monday.
The care worker said 'I'm not a pink-haired leftie'
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The worker expressed clear frustration with the current situation, distancing themselves from stereotypes while criticising the system.
"I 100 per cent don't want boat crossings or people suffocating in the back of wagons," they stated.
"I'm not a pink-haired leftie either. Boats are no good. It's all wrong."
They questioned the effectiveness of government messaging compared to smugglers' online recruitment.
"Who are these people going to listen to? Facilitators on TikTok or Keir Starmer saying 'don't come'."
The Labour government recently outlined plans to curb legal migration, with Sir Keir Starmer announcing changes to study and work visas and higher English language requirements.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has promised further reforms to the asylum system and border security later this summer.
The Government has vowed to crack down on people smuggling gangs by granting counter terror-style powers to law enforcement agencies under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security."
