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The eyewatering cost of returning each dinghy migrant to France | UK | News

The eyewatering cost of returning each dinghy migrant to France | UK | News

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s deal allows the UK to return migrants who arrive illegally across the English Channel to France in exchange for admitting an equivalent number of refugees directly from France who have not attempted the crossing. The average cost of returning a migrant is £48,800, meaning one recent flight could have cost taxpayers up to £1.52 million, according to reports. A recent plane departure from Stansted to Paris, as part of the nation’s one-in-one-out deal with France, carried 32 male migrants, 73 guards and two paramedics. According to analysis by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, the cost of enforced removals has increased from around £15,000 per person in the last decade, reports The Sun. It includes case work, the cost of chartering planes and financial support for migrants once out of the UK. The UK must also cover the cost of transporting migrants to and from France under the one-in-one-out deal. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “The one-in-one-out scheme is a failure. “No wonder more illegal immigrants have crossed …

Four Dead as Migrants Try to Board Dinghy off Northern France

Four Dead as Migrants Try to Board Dinghy off Northern France

By Juliette Jabkhiro and Inti Landauro PARIS, April 9 (Reuters) – Four people ⁠died ⁠after a group of migrants attempted ⁠to board an inflatable dinghy and cross the Channel from France to Britain, ​prompting a rescue operation off the coast of Calais, authorities said on Thursday. Local mayor Christian Fourcroy, who said he had ‌been briefed by emergency services, said a ‌group of about 30 migrants had waded out into the water to reach the dinghy between the beaches ⁠of Equihen and ⁠Ecault at about 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) when they got into trouble.  “(They) tried to ​board the boat. Things went wrong and, let’s just say, they floundered in the water. Among them were two women and two men who died,” Fourcroy told Reuters. A fifth person was in a critical condition, he said. The dinghy motored into deeper ​waters and continued its journey to Britain, the local authorities said. Earlier the prefecture, the local office ⁠of the ⁠interior ministry, had said the ⁠dinghy had sunk. Over ​the past year, traffickers seeking to evade …

Italian Coast Guard Finds 19 Migrants Dead and Rescues 58 From Dinghy off Lampedusa

Italian Coast Guard Finds 19 Migrants Dead and Rescues 58 From Dinghy off Lampedusa

ROME (AP) — The Italian coast guard found 19 bodies and rescued 58 people after intercepting a dinghy filled with migrants that was in distress about 80 nautical miles from the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, a coast guard spokesperson said. The rescue took place Tuesday night with the Italian coast guard operating in the Libyan search and rescue zone during rough weather conditions, said spokesperson Roberto D’Arrigo on Wednesday. “We were the only ones able to intervene, as there were no other ships or rescue teams in the area. Sea conditions were pretty extreme, with waves of more than 6-7 meters (20-23 feet),” he said. D’Arrigo said the migrants had probably departed from Libya. The victims likely died of hypothermia but the cause of the deaths still needs to be verified. The survivors were brought to Lampedusa after a 10-hour trip and are in the care of local health services, the coast guard said. The tiny island of Lampedusa is the main entry point to Europe for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North …