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Number of asylum seekers making the perilous trip across English Channel triples
More than 27,000 asylum seekers have risked their lives this year by cramming into inflatable dinghies across the English Channel, but the UK government is trying to crack down on their border controls.
Arash* took his first steps on English soil on a cloudy, drizzly day in May, after attempting a perilous crossing of the Channel from northern France.
- SBS News
UK border police intercepted the inflatable dinghy on which he and …