TikTok vide showed asylum seeker Rahat Popal being picked up by a UK lifeboat crew before being taken ashore in Dover, and finally relaxing on a bed in a hotel funded by British taxpayers.
More than 18,000 people have now crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year - as migrants were spotted arriving in Dover on Wednesday morning.
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