British lifeboats and Border Force vessels rescued more than 30 migrants and refugees, including a child, off Dover, Kent in their attempt to cross the English Channel to England in a dangerously overcrowded small boat.
Specifically, their boat was so full that a Border Force rigid inflatable boat had to make two journeys to take them to a cutter.
In addition, the British authorities moved forward to the arrest of three men on suspicion of immigration offences.
After the arrest, immigration officials are responsible for those rescued.
Although the traffic of unregulated boats that are trying to cross the Channel has raised concerns in Britain, the numbers making the crossing are a tiny fraction of the refugees and migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
Concluding, results from the UN refugee agency UNHCR highlight that in 2019 up to today, 7.685 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea, including 4.835 in Spain and 2.530 in Greece.
