Tory MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke, 50, argued that money should be spent on trying to stop arrivals from crossing the Channel, rather than on a £2million permanent facility to process the migrants.
Border Force intercepted 285 migrants in nine small boats attempting to cross the English Channel on Sunday, including at least five young children who were too young to walk themselves ashore.
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As the total number of boat migrants passed 10,500 this year - 2,000 more than the 8,417 who arrived in the whole of 2020. But hundreds who arrived in the UK have gone missing.
Previously a simple brick building at the end of a jetty in Dover, the complex now includes an enormous marquee and at least ten cabins to handle the hundreds of migrants picked up every day.