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Children clutching teddies were pictured being brought ashore in Dover this morning after more than 100 migrants crossed the Channel - as the government starts to send the first asylum seekers to  next week under a new scheme.<br>Families were intercepted in the  this morning, with a steady stream of men, women and young children brought into harbour at Dover.<br>Border Force vessels were pictured with dozens of migrants aboard, while a small child was carried carefully from a lifeboat by a soldier in Army fatigues where immigration officers were waiting. <br>More than 100 people have been brought into the UK since yesterday - with around 60 people, mainly men, brought into the harbour at Dover on board the Border Force vessel Typhoon. Another 43 were brought in on the Border Force boat Vigilant.<br>With weather conditions improving, it is believed more small boats will attempt the treacherous 21-mile crossing through the day with a number in mid-Channel. <br>It comes after the first 100 migrants being deported to Rwanda will receive notices that they will be extradited from the UK this week, with the first flights expected to set off on June 6, it has been revealed.<br>The paperwork, which notifies the migrant of intent to send them on the 6,000-mile journey, is understood to have been sent to the 100 asylum seekers under Home Secretary Priti Patel's new scheme.<br>         Children clutching teddies were pictured being brought ashore in Dover this morning after more than 100 migrants crossed the Channel - as the government starts to send the first asylum seekers to Rwanda next week under a new scheme<br>       Families were intercepted in the English Channel this morning, with a steady stream of men, women and young children carrying their favourite teddies brought into harbour at Dover<br>         More than 100 people have been brought into the UK since yesterday - with around 60 people, mainly men, brought into the harbour at Dover on board the Border Force vessel Typhoon<br>         Border Force vessels were pictured with dozens of migrants aboard, while a small child was carried carefully from a lifeboat by a soldier in Army fatigues where immigration officers were waiting<br>         Pictured: Migrants are brought to Dover Harbour by Border Force and the Royal Navy this morning, having crossed the English Channel from France<br>         According to the MoD, 9,439 people have arrived in the UK in 291 small boats this year.<br><br>In 2021, 28,526 people crossed the Channel - significantly higher than the 8,410 who arrived in 2020<br>   RELATED ARTICLES                   <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>Single men are said to be amongst the first migrants being sent away by Home Office lawyers. The Government had wanted flights to Kigali to start by the end of May under the £120million deal it secured with the Kagame government last month.<br>The warnings tell them they will be flown to Rwanda and 'supported to build a new life there' if they don't withdraw their asylum application and agree to return to their country of origin.<br>Rwanda will process asylum claims and 'settle or remove' them in line with Rwandan and international laws, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson adding that tens of thousands of migrants could potentially be flown out to East Africa in the coming years.<br><br>Minister later said figures were more likely to remain in the hundreds.<br>The Home Secretary's team is 'ready for legal challenges', while Boris Johnson lashed out at 'liberal lawyers' for delaying his plan to send thousands of migrants from the UK to Rwanda - and vowed to 'get it done'.<br>The latest migrant crossing comes as almost 3,000 migrants were intercepted making the treacherous crossing of the English Channel in small boats, according to government figures.<br>The Ministry of Defence revealed 249 made the crossing in eight boats on Tuesday before weather conditions in the 21-mile Straits of Dover deteriorated.<br>One group of migrants resorted to using tyre inner tubes as life jackets.<br><br>Around 20 of them were seen discarded in one dinghy towed into the Port of Dover. Among the group brought in on Tuesday included a number of small children.<br>A soldier in Army fatigues was seen carefully carrying one child up the gangway to the immigration processing centre on the quayside.<br>A father wearing a face mask was also seen carrying his young son off a Border Force vessel after making the treacherous 21 mile crossing.<br>Meanwhile,  [https://squareblogs.net/koralive77/mshhd-qn-wn-sbwrt-2-on-sport-2-jwl squareblogs.net] a small Zodiac boat sat at Dover's harbour this morning, which would have been used to cross the Channel from France.<br>         With weather conditions improving, it is believed more small boats will attempt the treacherous 21-mile crossing through the day with a number in mid-Channel<br>         Pictured: A small Zodiac boat sat at Dover's harbour this morning, which would have been used to cross the Channel from France<br>         Data released by the MoD reveals that at least 2,637 people have reached the UK in 87 boats so far during the month of May <br>         Some illegal immigrants already in Britain will be told they will be sent to Africa and will only have a week to provide detailed reasons as to why they should not be removed from the UK<br>         A smiling migrant waves to the camera yesterday afternoon as he disembarks from an RNLI lifeboat in Dover<br>         The French regional operational surveillance and rescue centre (CROSS) in Gris-Nez also identified several boats in difficulty in the Calais Strait on Tuesday<br>         Due to a change in weather conditions they were the first arrivals since May 23 when 252 people reached British soil, due to wet and stormy weather at sea<br>The French regional operational surveillance and rescue centre (CROSS) in Gris-Nez also identified several boats in difficulty in the Calais Strait on Tuesday.<br>The all-weather boat, Jean Bart, recovered 41 migrants from the Channel and dropped them at the port of Dunkirk, while the Maritime Affairs patrol boat, Jeanne Barret, picked up 45 shipwrecked people and escorted them to the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer.<br>They were then taken care of by the French border police and the departmental fire and rescue services.<br><br>On Monday 32 migrants in two dinghies were brought into Dover.<br>Due to a change in weather conditions they were the first arrivals since May 23 when 252 people reached British soil, due to wet and stormy weather at sea.<br>It takes the number to have arrived so far this year to 9,720 people in 301 small boats.<br>The Home Office revealed 28,526 people crossed the Channel in 2021 - significantly higher than the 8,410 who arrived in 2020.<br>         As 35 migrants arrived in Dover by dinghy on Monday morning, some illegal immigrants already in Britain will be told they will be sent to Africa and will only have a week to provide detailed reasons as to why they should not be removed from the UK<br>         Border Force vessels and RNLI lifeboats were pictured with dozens of migrants aboard, while a small boy was carried carefully from a lifeboat by a soldier in Army fatigues as his family came ashore onto the gangway up to the quayside where immigration officers were waiting for them<br>Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration, Tom Pursglove MP, has said: 'The rise in dangerous Channel crossings is unacceptable.<br>'Not only are they an overt abuse of our immigration laws but they also impact on the UK taxpayer, risk lives and our ability to help refugees come to the UK via safe and legal routes.<br><br>Rightly, the British public has had enough.<br>'Through our Nationality and Borders Bill, we're cracking down on people smugglers and fixing the broken system by making it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in the UK illegally and introducing a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for those who facilitate illegal entry into our country.'<br>Migrants sent to Rwanda next month will be put up at taxpayers' expense in a hotel with a swimming pool, spa facilities, free WIFI, flat screen TVs with satellite channels, a tennis court, a gym and access to a golf course, MailOnline can reveal.<br>         Set in a quiet suburb on the outskirts of the capital city, Kigali, the Desir Resort Hotel has a swimming pool, an outside bar and restaurant and spa facilities<br>         The Home Office is thought to have informed about 100 individuals that they will be sent to Rwanda where their asylum claim will be processed.<br><br>Pictured: The swimming pool at the Desir<br>         The outdoor restaurant a the Desir Resort Hotel, where British taxpayers will be funding refugees stays until a decision is made on their immigration status<br>          more videos                                                                           <br><br>DM.later('bundle', function()<br>DM.molFeCarousel.init('#p-63', 'channelCarousel', <br>"activeClass" : "wocc",<br>"pageCount" : "3.0",<br>"pageSize" : 1,<br>"onPos": 0,<br>"updateStyleOnHover": true<br>);<br>);<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox news halfRHS" data-version="2" id="mol-1d6a61c0-e1a4-11ec-8aa2-cd30dc5888bb" website clutching teddies brought ashore at Dover as crossing resume