Young child is among dozens more migrants brought into Dover by boat

2023-05-01

Young child is among dozens more migrants brought into Dover by boat – just hours after Albanian prime minister Edi Rama accused UK of having a ‘nervous breakdown’ over Channel crisis

A young child was pictured amongst dozens of suspected migrants picked up
He previously attacked ‘Albanian criminals’ language used by Suella Braverman
Albanians now make up the biggest contingent of foreign prisoners in UK jails
Read more: Albanian PM Edi Rama accuses UK of having a ‘nervous breakdown’

Dozens of suspected migrants trying to enter the country in small boats have been picked up today – just hours after Albania’s Prime Minister launched another scathing attack on the UK.

A boat carrying approximately 80 people believed to be migrants was seen entering Dover this morning and at least one small child was seen disembarking.

Figures showed that at least 13,000 Albanians entered Britain on small boats last year – just under a third of all arrivals.

Edi Rama said earlier today the UK was in ‘a bad place’ and having a ‘nervous breakdown’ over the flow of thousands of people from the Continent in small boats.

Prime Minister Rama signed a deal with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in December to stem the flow of illegal immigration as part of one of Sunak’s key pledges but has made no secret of his dislike of incendiary rhetoric used by senior British politicians.

A young child was seen amongst the migrants disembarking in Dover on May 1. Around 80 people were seen leaving a boat

Border Force picked up a boat carrying an estimated 80 migrants on Monday morning – including a small girl

Albania’s Prime Minister has already attacked the language used by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Commons last year when she blasted ‘Albanian criminals’ sneaking into the UK.

Speaking at an economic event in Greece, Mr Rama said the UK was targeting his nation ‘to feel like they still have muscle’.

‘We have fought against [this language] and now we see they have calmed down a bit. But they are going through something of a nervous breakdown as a country so we have to understand them,’ he told the Delphi Economic Forum, according to the Independent.

‘It is not something we can’t understand, we have to understand them. They have lost a lot of points of reference and they are really in a bad, bad place.’

It came as a Border Force boat carrying 80 migrants picked up in the Channel arrived in Dover this morning.

People who are believed to be migrants disembark the boat on May 1 following a small boat incident in the Channel

Border force officials escort 80 migrants into Dover Docks, Kent. Border Force help them ashore over 5,000 migrants are reported to have crossed the Channel so far this year

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel

Speaking at an economic event in Greece, Mr Rama said the UK was targeting his nation ‘to feel like they still have muscle’

It came as a Border Force boat carrying 80 migrants picked up in the Channel arrived in Dover this morning

Mr Rama signed a bilateral deal with Rishi Sunak in December designed in part to help tackle illegal immigration.

But he has made no secret of his distaste for remarks made by Ms Braverman and others.

But figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday show 75 per cent of Albanian nationals who have arrived illegally have since committed at least one criminal offence in the UK.

And 30 per cent of Britain’s class-A drug trade is now controlled by Albanian gang lords.

Albanians – many of whom arrived illegally in Britain on lorries and small boats – are now the biggest contingent of foreign prisoners in UK jails, with 1,582 locked up here.

This year so far, 93 Albanians have been jailed – at a cost to the taxpayer of £17million – for serious offences such as murder, rape and kidnapping and burglary, including 14 in the past week.

Mr Rama, pictured meeting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in March, said the UK was in ‘a bad place’ and having a ‘nervous breakdown’ over the flow of thousands of people from the Continent in small boats

He had already attacked the language used by Suella Braverman in the Commons last year when she blasted ‘Albanian criminals’ sneaking into the UK.

They include six killers, one rapist, a kidnapper, five class-A drug dealers and 56 cannabis growers.

Of the 93 jailed, at least 53 came to the UK illegally, either on small boats or in the back of lorries.

Albanians made up the biggest proportion of the more than 45,000 people who crossed the Channel illegally last year.

At one stage last summer, they represented 60 per cent of arrivals in small boats.

Thousands sought asylum, even though Albania is considered ‘safe and hospitable’ by the Foreign Office.

MailOnline contacted the Home Office for comment.

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