GB News host Martin Daubney has been left outraged after a small boat containing illegal migrants arrived on the Kent coast undetected.
Reacting to the incident, revealed exclusively by a People's Channel producer, Martin declared it "outrageous" that the men could have sauntered into the nearby coastal town of Folkestone undetected without GB News's assistance.
The undetected arrival happened just before noon on Monday at The Warren, a rocky stretch of coast near Folkestone.
GB News's Kent producer, who tracks and films migrant arrivals in Dover, managed to capture footage and images of the vessel as it approached the coast.
Detailing the footage, GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White told GB News viewers: "Today our producer Chris got a call from one of the skippers on a working boat out in the Channel because they thought they'd seen a migrant dinghy.
"They weren't sure and they wanted Chris, knowing he's got a telephoto lens to have a look out to the Channel.
"The first video is indeed a migrant dinghy. Not a mega dinghy, of course, but a dinghy that we think had potentially up to 10 on board. So Chris was filming this, got a couple of quick shots before he dashed to the beach, but he called the coastguard to inform them what was happening and then he dashed down as well."
Chris then captured the small boat left on the shoreline, with lifejackets worn by the migrants visible next to the vessel.
Mark said: "You can see a couple of yellow lifejackets still on board the dinghy that's just down there on the beach. When Chris arrived there, the migrants had all scuppered.
"There were still three there, and he caught up with them and persuaded these illegal immigrants to stay. More footage shows there's one person gesticulating and two others sitting down. There's a policeman on the left of the shot and a policeman just to the right of the shot there."
Mark revealed that "at least five" that were on board managed to get away from the authorities.
Responding to the incident, Martin fumed: "They've simply ran off the shore and into Britain, who knows where. The point of this is that we often talk on the show about the cunning of the illegal immigrants and the people smugglers, to get around where the forces of detainment or the force to turn them away are.
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"We've seen, for example, the mega dinghys going as far as Cherbourg, going further south, as far north as Belgium, back to basics on the bottom of lorries, and this is back to 2018. This is how the small boat crisis began. The dinghies were this small.
"You and I had been to those small boat graveyards in Dover, where there are hundreds and hundreds of craft just like these, piled as far as the eye can see. Is this now then, going back to their roots, and they're simply sailing into Britain undetected by the coastguard, and they're coming in and just wandering ashore? It's outrageous."
Mark agreed: "I think some are, absolutely. Because I think they know that if they've got small craft like this, even though the border security commander sort of professionalised its at sea detection with drones and other specialist aeroplanes, sometimes they miss these much smaller craft and they get to shore like this.
"But this is a rarity, certainly in terms of the authorities acknowledging a small boat landing. The last one was on September the 6th last year. It gives you an indication of how rare it is, but it might be something that they will try because you've got two different types of illegal immigrants coming across the Channel.
"There are those that want to come to be detected at the halfway point in their big dinghies and enter the asylum system.
"You've got others that want to land on beaches and scarper, like those that go into the backs of lorries and want to just scarper and then work in the illegal economy."
GB News has been told that five of those onboard the dinghy that made it to shore today have since been detained by police and Border Force.
It is unclear what the fate of the remaining handful of migrants is, as they were seen running off before authorities arrived.
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GB News host Martin Daubney has been left outraged after a small boat containing illegal migrants arrived on the Kent coast undetected.
Reacting to the incident, revealed exclusively by a People's Channel producer, Martin declared it "outrageous" that the men could have sauntered into the nearby coastal town of Folkestone undetected without GB News's assistance.
The undetected arrival happened just before noon on Monday at The Warren, a rocky stretch of coast near Folkestone.
GB News's Kent producer, who tracks and films migrant arrivals in Dover, managed to capture footage and images of the vessel as it approached the coast.
Detailing the footage, GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White told GB News viewers: "Today our producer Chris got a call from one of the skippers on a working boat out in the Channel because they thought they'd seen a migrant dinghy.
"They weren't sure and they wanted Chris, knowing he's got a telephoto lens to have a look out to the Channel.
"The first video is indeed a migrant dinghy. Not a mega dinghy, of course, but a dinghy that we think had potentially up to 10 on board. So Chris was filming this, got a couple of quick shots before he dashed to the beach, but he called the coastguard to inform them what was happening and then he dashed down as well."
Chris then captured the small boat left on the shoreline, with lifejackets worn by the migrants visible next to the vessel.
Mark said: "You can see a couple of yellow lifejackets still on board the dinghy that's just down there on the beach. When Chris arrived there, the migrants had all scuppered.
"There were still three there, and he caught up with them and persuaded these illegal immigrants to stay. More footage shows there's one person gesticulating and two others sitting down. There's a policeman on the left of the shot and a policeman just to the right of the shot there."
Mark revealed that "at least five" that were on board managed to get away from the authorities.
Responding to the incident, Martin fumed: "They've simply ran off the shore and into Britain, who knows where. The point of this is that we often talk on the show about the cunning of the illegal immigrants and the people smugglers, to get around where the forces of detainment or the force to turn them away are.
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- Dinghy lands on Kent coast – Illegal immigrants detained after GB News producer alerts authorities
- Labour branded 'disgraceful' over plan to house asylum seekers in city already overrun with migrants
- Labour accused of spiralling welfare 'out of control' as migrants handed billions in benefits
"We've seen, for example, the mega dinghys going as far as Cherbourg, going further south, as far north as Belgium, back to basics on the bottom of lorries, and this is back to 2018. This is how the small boat crisis began. The dinghies were this small.
"You and I had been to those small boat graveyards in Dover, where there are hundreds and hundreds of craft just like these, piled as far as the eye can see. Is this now then, going back to their roots, and they're simply sailing into Britain undetected by the coastguard, and they're coming in and just wandering ashore? It's outrageous."
Mark agreed: "I think some are, absolutely. Because I think they know that if they've got small craft like this, even though the border security commander sort of professionalised its at sea detection with drones and other specialist aeroplanes, sometimes they miss these much smaller craft and they get to shore like this.
"But this is a rarity, certainly in terms of the authorities acknowledging a small boat landing. The last one was on September the 6th last year. It gives you an indication of how rare it is, but it might be something that they will try because you've got two different types of illegal immigrants coming across the Channel.
"There are those that want to come to be detected at the halfway point in their big dinghies and enter the asylum system.
"You've got others that want to land on beaches and scarper, like those that go into the backs of lorries and want to just scarper and then work in the illegal economy."
GB News has been told that five of those onboard the dinghy that made it to shore today have since been detained by police and Border Force.
It is unclear what the fate of the remaining handful of migrants is, as they were seen running off before authorities arrived.
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