MoD considering request to deploy navy to stop Channel migrants

Home Office asked for patrols after saying migrants should face real consequences'

Alarm is growing over UK proposals to introduce hardline measures to discourage refugees and illegal migrants from seeking sanctuary after the Ministry of Defence confirmed it was considering a Home Office request to deploy navy vessels in the Dover Straits.

It comes after the immigration minister, Chris Philp, called for migrants caught crossing the Channel to be fingerprinted and face real consequences", before a meeting next week with his French counterparts.