Violence from people-smuggling gangs and illegal migrants along the French coastline is escalating to such a degree that children are even being used as “human shields” during confrontations with police, a British Border Force official has claimed.
Deputy director of the Small Boats Operational Command for the UK’s Border Force Carol Heginbottom said that the situation “is getting worse” as illegal migrants and human trafficking gangs on the beaches of France are beginning to panic about legislation passed last week which supposedly clears the way for Britain to remove illegal boat migrants to asylum processing centres in Rwanda, rather than putting them up at taxpayer expense in hotels across the country.
“We’ve seen them [attack police] with sticks, metal bars, machetes, using women
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