The number of people to have arrived in the UK on small boats so far this year has topped 20,000, according to the Home Office.
Its latest figures showed 614 migrants arrived yesterday on 10 boats.
That marks the second highest number of arrivals on a single day since the general election, after 703 arrivals on 11 August.
The highest number on any day so far this year was 882, on 18 June.
It brings the total number of migrants who have arrived via the English Channel on small boats to 20,433 in the year so far.
By this point last year, 19,801 had come over on small boats.
However, this year's figures have not topped 2022's record of 25,065 migrants who had arrived to the UK via the Channel by this point in the year.
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