Border Force stopped detaining asylum seekers because “hundreds” of detention spaces are set aside for the Rwanda scheme even though it has been blocked by the
Calmer conditions saw the first small boat crossings in the last five days - as more than 200 migrants were brought into Dover, Kent on Friday following a record-breaking August.
More migrants arrived across the Channel in August than in the whole of 2020, with 8,644 people reaching Britain in small boats from northern France last month.