Dozen Migrants, Including Children and Pregnant Woman, Killed Trying to Enter Britain as Ruling Socialists Refuse to Shut Borders

A pregnant woman and several children are among 12 people who have died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized in the English Channel.

The mostly female dead included several children, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that two more people were missing.

The French coast guard said more than 50 people had been rescued off the Gris-Nez cape, near the town of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Two were said to be in critical condition. Mr Darmanin said that the boat was overloaded, and fewer than eight people had life jackets on.

The disaster is the deadliest loss of life in the Channel this year. The mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Frédéric Cuvillier, told the BBC that a pregnant woman had died. One source said a Syrian smuggler may have been involved.

The city’s prosecutor, Guirec Le Bras, said that those killed were “primarily of Eritrean origin,” but that officials “do not have consolidated details that would allow us to specify the exact nationalities”.

Before Tuesday’s incident, 30 people had already died crossing the Channel in 2024 – the highest figure for any year since 2021, when 45 deaths were recorded, according to the UN’s International Organisation for Migration.

While conservatives will rightly blame the leftist Labour Party for the deaths, the previous Tory government similarly refused to secure the country’s borders.

Under both Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the governemnt spent hundreds of millions of pounds settling individuals in the country with free food, accomodation, healthcare and spending money.

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While the left are eager to portray the migrants as refugees fleeing war and conflict, those who arrive in the United Kingdom almost always travel from France, a highly prosperous European nation with its own generous asylum system.