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Farage claims 1,200+ illegal migrant crossings since Monday; Reform pledges Navy deployment

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says undetected boats have crossed the Channel; proposes Royal Navy interception and returns to France.

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What to know

  • Farage claims 1,200+ illegal migrant crossings since Monday with some boats undetected, citing loss of Labour government control over borders.
  • Reform UK proposes deploying the Royal Navy to intercept crossings in the Channel and return migrants to France.
  • Online skeptics question the feasibility of Farage's "turn them around" solution and cite legal and practical constraints on Royal Navy operations against non-combatants.

The dispute Whether the Royal Navy's operational and legal constraints make Farage's interception proposal workable, and whether alternatives like Rwanda-style schemes could address irregular crossings. · positions read across 4 posts and comments

some voices

The Royal Navy cannot legally intercept and "turn around" migrants due to safety-at-sea obligations and non-combatant status.

  • “They tend to take safety at sea too seriously to take action against non combatants.”

    danm131 · reddit ↗
some voices

Farage's simple "turn them around" solution is oversimplified and many people fall for it without understanding the practical implementation.

  • “Reform want type 99 destoryers or royal marines on speed boats to intercept and "turn them around". I just ask because Nigel apparantly has a very simple solution "turn them around" which unfortuantly many people fall for”

    Direct-Key-8859 · reddit ↗

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Farage claims 1,200+ illegal migrant crossings since Monday; Reform pledges Navy deployment
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Sep 25yesterdaytodaynow · 7:29 PM ET
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    Farage posts migrant crossing claims and border control pledge

    Nigel Farage posted on X that over 1,200 illegal migrants have crossed the Channel since Monday, with multiple boats arriving undetected. He accused Labour of losing control of UK borders and pledged that Reform UK would deploy the Royal Navy to intercept crossings and return migrants to France.

    “Over 1,200 illegal migrants crossed the Channel since Monday. Multiple boats even arrived undetected. It's insane! Labour have totally lost control of our borders. Reform will put the Royal Navy in the Channel and return every illegal to France.”
    — Nigel Farage

    • Over 1,200 illegal migrants crossed the Channel since Monday. Multiple boats even arrived undetected. It's insane! Labour have totally lost control of our borders. Reform will put the Royal Navy in the Channel and return every illegal to France.

      @Nigel_FarageX3d ago5.1k▲view on X ↗
    2 more of the top 3 · 4 posts in this stretch

    • Apparantly Reform want type 99 destoryers or royal marines on speed boats to intercept and "turn them around". I just ask because Nigel apparantly has a very simple solution "turn them around" which unfortuantly many people fall for

      Direct-Key-8859r/ukpolitics3d agoview on r/ukpolitics ↗

    • Thank you. That makes sense. I guess this is where the Rwanda scheme would have made a difference for those who "lost" their ID.

      Gatecrasher1234r/ukpolitics3d agoview on r/ukpolitics ↗
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What people are saying 1 voices from 1 site · best of 4 · verbatim

Still unanswered
  • What specific naval assets and legal authority would be required for the Royal Navy to intercept and return migrants?
  • How would France respond to migrants being returned from UK waters?