UK PM Rishi Sunak, France President Macron agree on new deal on illegal migration

 

London:  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday agreed on a new deal to jointly crack down on migrants making illegal journeys across the English Channel in unsafe small boats.

During a visit to Paris for an Anglo-French Summit, Sunak declared that the fresh set of measures will include a new detention centre located on the French border backed by 480 million pounds in UK funding over three years and additional drones and surveillance technology for French border officials.

The deal will also see hundreds more French personnel patrolling the beaches to intercept people smuggling criminal gangs facilitating dangerous crossings between the port of Calais on the French coast and Dover in the UK.