Record 430 migrants cross English Channel in a single day

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Dan O'Mahoney, Britain's clandestine channel threat commander, said in a statement that "there is an unacceptable rise in dangerous small boat crossings across the channel because of a surge in illegal migration across Europe."
52% : For the right to seek and enjoy asylum does not depend on the regularity of arrival of an asylum-seeker to a country.
46% : "People should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and not risk their lives making these dangerous crossings.
46% : The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has also warned that "at the heart of the Plan is a discriminatory two-tiered approach to asylum" with access to asylum and protections severely restricted for those arriving to the UK through non-legal channels.
42% : The bill has been criticised by NGOs, including the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, which said that it represents a "fundamental challenge to the principle of refugee protection in the UK" while the tougher sentences will "further criminalise asylum seekers for exercising their legal right to seek asylum."

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