 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Officials are seeing 'same faces' among migrants coming into Dover from Calais
- UN report revealed that 70 per cent of Libyan migrants do not qualify for asylum
- A leading UN chief has admitted return mechanism needs to be put in place
- Of the 41,129 migrants who have come to Europe this year, 18.3 per cent are from Tunisia, while 10.3 per cent are from Algeria.
- According to the UNHCR report, migrants who travelled from Libya to Italy and Malta made up 68 per cent of arrivals to Europe via the Central Mediterranean between January and May.
- Around 8,600 people have departed from the North African country by sea, with Bangladeshis, Sudanese and Somalis the most common nationalities making the crossing.
- The vast majority of those attempting to reach Britain from Calais have travelled over land through the EU, experts say.
- The news comes amid an increase in migrant crossings in the UK, with a record number attempting to come over in small boats from Calais.
- Former Border Force director general Tony Smith told the Telegraph: 'A lot of people who are in Calais have already been told that they cannot stay in the EU, some of them have been refused in a couple of different countries, but they don't want to go back.
- 'The French can't remove them so they are just their names and details and telling them to stop trying to break the law.'
- Traffickers offer paid-for arrangements at a camp in Calais costing from £10,000 to £1,000 or less.
- Meanwhile Kent County Council no longer have capacity for unaccompanied migrant children.
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