Since the beginning of the year, more than 10,000 people have crossed the English Channel from France to Great Britain in small boats.

This is the result of analyzes by the BBC broadcaster.

He reported that almost 80 migrants were again brought to the Dover coast by border officials on Tuesday.

So far this year, twice as many people have arrived compared to the same period last year.

"The increase in dangerous crossings is unacceptable," said a UK government spokesman, according to the report.

"Not only are they a blatant abuse of our immigration system, they risk lives and hamper our ability to help refugees entering the UK through safe and legal routes."

With its rigid asylum policy, the conservative government wants to deter as many people as possible from entering the country at all.

Many migrants who have entered the country illegally are no longer to be granted the right to seek asylum.

Instead, they should be sent to Rwanda and apply for asylum there.

A corresponding agreement with the East African country provides for Great Britain to provide the country with appropriate financial resources in exchange.

The first refugees are to be flown out in mid-June.

The UN refugee agency UNHCR sharply criticized the Rwanda plan: Sending money abroad does not replace the responsibility of states to take in asylum seekers and protect them on their own soil - regardless of their origin, nationality or the way in which the organization said they had come to the country.