British authorities have intercepted a number of migrant boats across the English Channel waters in recent times, but the situation is getting worse due to the sheer scale of the problem.
The British Government is now calling on military ships and aircraft to assist in the increasingly difficult task of monitoring the entirety of the English Channel.
It is understood that at least three human traffickers have been arrested in France on suspicion of arranging the perilous journey across the Channel for hundreds of migrants.