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BBC News (30 June 2025)

Simon Jones

Migrants gathering in France aiming to cross the English Channel in small boats have said they remain determined to get to the UK, despite new deterrents planned by the British and French governments.

London and Paris have been in negotiations to return some illegal migrants arriving in Dover, with the the British government accepting legal migrants seeking family reunion.

The French authorities are also considering allowing the police or coastguard to intervene in shallow waters to try to stop so-called taxi boats which pick migrants up from the beaches.

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