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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is under fire over a second 'uncontrolled landing' by migrants on British shores in just two days.
Up to 30 migrants reached a Kent beach by small boat on Tuesday before police reached the scene.
Officials confirmed 21 people were detained and taken to a Home Office facility, where they will be processed ahead of lodging asylum claims in Britain.
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It came just a day after up to seven migrants reached another location in Kent without being intercepted by UK Border Force.
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A Government spokesman said: 'Border Security Command officers alongside Kent police have been responding to an incident in Dover.
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21 individuals have already been detained under a swift enforcement response.
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'There is a thorough investigation ongoing, and it would be inappropriate to comment further.
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The detained migrants have been taken to Western Jet Foil at the Port of Dover for processing, it is understood.
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Ms Mahmood has ordered an 'urgent review' of the two unescorted landings.
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The latest incident took place as a record 38-hour voyage by 51 migrants from Normandy was still unfolding.
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As chaos in the Channel continued today, a packed dinghy was seen leaving from a beach in Hardelot in northern France.
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In the nearby town of Neufchâtel-Hardelot, journalists found the body of a man in his 20s, reported to be a migrant.
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Migrants heading to the UK this morning in a dinghy from Hardelot in northern France
Migrants in the water by Hardelot beach in northern France after an incident today
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'Shabana Mahmood has clearly lost control of our borders and illegal immigrants are now crossing the Channel at will.
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Two uncontrolled landings and the 100-mile crossing from Normandy in the last 72 hours should be a wake-up call for this weak Labour government.
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'Migrants are now evading detection in the water and the French are doing next to nothing to stop it.
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'This Government's response is to put the illegal migrants up in hotels and let them stay here forever.
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He added: 'We need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, end benefits and hotels for illegal immigrants and ensure they are deported immediately.'
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Senior Home Office officials have previously stressed their top priority is to prevent uncontrolled landings because of the risk posed by migrants who vanish into the country on arrival.
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The latest incident is believed to be the largest such landing since 26 migrants reached Ramsgate beach on a small boat in August 2021.
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Eyewitnesses said up to 30 people arrived on Samphire Beach between Dover and Folkestone on Tuesday shortly before noon.
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Video footage showed the occupants making their way up the shingle beach before heading west towards Folkestone.
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Some of the men can be seen covering their faces with hoods, while others are wearing full-face coverings.
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According to the eyewitness, police officers arrived and attempted to track the migrants.
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It is not known how many migrants managed to evade the officers.
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Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas is being investigated for slashing a dinghy in the Channel yesterday
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I was walking along to take photos of the cliffs and noticed them arriving,' said the witness.
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'Some did their best to run furthest to the Folkestone way
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There was a woman who had a harder time walking on the beach.
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The police turned up and tried to track those men.'
The latest incident took place on the same day defence minister Luke Pollard said in a radio interview: 'Our borders are secure.'
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comes as police continue to investigate the activist 'Danny Tommo' after he livestreamed himself slashing a dinghy while a rescuer was still onboard.
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The convicted criminal turned anti-migrant campaigner - real name Daniel Thomas - had been shadowing small boats as they left France towards British shores.
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Footage shows Thomas – who was jailed in 2016 for an attempted kidnapping – bringing his boat alongside a dinghy after the migrants had been moved on to a lifeboat.
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Seconds later, a French rescuer stepped onto the empty dinghy to secure it, before the activist sliced through one side of it.
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This is England, this is not France any more,' he told the rescuer.
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He then shouted at the Frenchman to get off the dinghy and return to his own boat.
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Thomas told his followers that the migrants from the dinghy were being taken towards Gosport – where a crowd of black-clad protesters from Patriot Platform were waiting for them.
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But the migrants were instead taken ashore at Dover at 12.30am.
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Hampshire Police confirmed it was investigating the dinghy slashing video, which appears to have been filmed at around 4pm yesterday.
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'We are aware of a video circulating online relating to damage being caused to a boat in the English Channel on the afternoon of September 22, and we are conducting enquiries into the matter,' a spokesman said.
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A dinghy with at least 60 migrants on board began its 38-hour journey yesterday escorted by the French Navy
The French sailors then handed over to the RNLI
Protesters - some wearing masks - gathered in Gosport and Portsmouth as reports suggested the dinghy may dock nearby
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The force described some of those who remained in Gosport as 'hostile' towards officers and said six people were arrested.
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The force said two men from Salisbury, aged 19 and 36, had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass; and four people from Gosport – two men aged 33 and 67, and two women aged 31 and 32 – were held on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.
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…and 6 more, not listed.
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