{"id":9913,"date":"2024-01-01T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2024-01-01T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:38:02","slug":"30000-migrants-crossed-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/01\/30000-migrants-crossed-to-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 Migrants Crossed to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain from mainland Europe in small boats in 2023, an annual drop of more than a third, government figures released Monday showed.<br \/>\nHowever, the unauthorized arrivals of 29,437 people on the southeast English coast remains the second largest yearly tally since officials began publishing the numbers in 2018.<br \/>\nThe perilous journeys across one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes have become a huge political problem for the Conservative government, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledging last year to \u201cstop the boats\u201d.<br \/>\nOne of five key promises he made for 2023, the persistently high number of arrivals could haunt the Tory leader as he bids to win a general election due this year.<br \/>\nSunak said last month there was no \u201cfirm date\u201d for meeting his pledge.<br \/>\nThe beleaguered leader will likely point to a 36 percent reduction in small-boat arrivals last year, after a record 45,000 migrants made the journey in 2022.<br \/>\nHis ministers have claimed Britain\u2019s \u00a3480 million ($610 million) agreement with France to increase efforts to stop the migrants is starting to pay off, alongside fast-track return deals struck with countries such as Albania.<br \/>\nBut the main Labor opposition says he has failed to keep his promise and his immigration policy is in chaos.<br \/>\nThe ruling Conservatives had hoped to deter the crossings by preventing all migrants arriving without prior authorization from applying for asylum and sending some to Rwanda.<br \/>\nBut the policy remains stalled after the UK Supreme Court ruled that deporting them to the east African country is illegal under international law.<br \/>\nThe cross-Channel journeys on small inflatable vessels, which are often overloaded and unseaworthy, has repeatedly proved deadly.<br \/>\nIn November 2021, at least 27 people drowned when their dinghy capsized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain from mainland Europe in small boats in 2023, an annual drop of more than a third, government figures released Monday showed. However, the unauthorized arrivals of 29,437 people on the southeast English coast remains the second largest yearly tally since officials began &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9915,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/9915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}