the prime minister says legislation will be brought in this year to tackle illegal immigration. 0ur corresponent, zoe conway, has been looking at the numbers. these figures are preliminary but they show a big increase on the previous year. with a record rise in the numbers crossing in small boats. more than 45,700 migrants crossed the channel in small boats last year. in 2021 just over 28,500 made the crossing. government figures released a few weeks ago showed that it is notjust the number of boats that is going up. it is also the number of people being packed onto them. in 2019, there were on average, 11 people per boat. two years later, 28 people were being put onto each boat. by last year, a0 people on average, were packed into each dinghy. men, women and children desperate to be rescued from a sinking dinghy in mid december. four perished.
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wildly and her heart is precariously close to shutting down. this 51-year-old mother and undocumented immigrant has renal disease, full on kidney failure. the function of the kidneys is to filter blood of excess toxins and excess fluid. when both kidneys stop working, people on average will live anywhere from 10 to 14 days. and so, to continue living, you need some process to filter blood, which is a dialysis machine. reporter: for most people, that treats the problem. but here s the thing, lucia is allowed treatment only when she essentially arrives at death s door. the emergency medical treatment act of 1986 says hospitals in the united states must care for anyone with a medical emergency, regardless of their citizenship or ability to pay, but they are not obligated to prevent that emergency from happening in the first place. what is happening inside the body? for these patients, because they only come in once a week,
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cannot be treated until they are on the brink of death. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has one mother s story. reporter: in order to really understand what s going on here, you re going to need to suspend disbelief. lucia is dying. her lungs drowning in fluid. her electrolytes are fluctuating wildly. and her heart is precariously close to shutting down. this 51-year-old mother and undocumented immigrant has end stage renal disease. full-on kidney failure. the function of the kidneys is to filter blood of excess toxins and excess fluid. when both kidneys stop working, people on average will live anywhere from 10 to 14 days. and so to continue living, you need some process to filter blood, which is a dialysis machine. reporter: for most people that treated the problem.
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undocumented immigrant has end stage renal disease. full-on kidney failure. sg the function of the kidneys is to filter blood when both kidneys stop working, people on average will live anywhere from 10 to 14 days. so to continue living, you need some process to filter blood, which is a dialysis machine. for most people, that treats the problem. but here s the thing. lucia is allowed treatment only when she essentially arrives at death s door. the emergency medical treatment act of 1986 says hospitals in the united states must care for anyone with a medical emergency, regardless of their citizenship or ability to pay. but they re not obligated to prevent that emergency from happening in the first place. what is happening inside the body? for these patients, because they only come in once a week instead of the three times per
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