Home Secretary reacts to ITV News exclusive filming of small boat crossings | ITV News
The Home Secretary admitted to ITV News that French efforts to stop illegal migrants crossing the Channel to the UK is “undermining” the UK’s border security.
Yvette Cooper said footage of officers failing to apprehend migrants on the coast of France was “not what we want to see”.
On Tuesday morning, ITV News filmed dozens of people, including children with no lifejackets, getting onto an overcrowded dinghy in Dunkirk, on the French coast, to make the dangerous journey across the Channel.
The dinghy came close to the shore multiple times and stayed for up to 20 minutes to pick up more passengers waiting, with no police stopping them.
ITV News UK Editor Paul Brand asked the Home Secretary for her thoughts on the small boat crossings.
It was the second day in a row that the ITV News team had spotted a dinghy carrying migrants along the same stretch of coastline.
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