More than 18,000 refugees have crossed Channel in small boats this year – MoD
by Diane Taylor from World news | The Guardian on (#628BP)
Figure passed as charities criticise Mail on Sunday's claims about economic migrants' from Albania
The number of refugees crossing the Channel this year has passed 18,000 after 337 crossed in small boats on Saturday, according to Ministry of Defence figures.
The new data comes after a newspaper report claimed that many of those who had crossed the Channel in the past six weeks were economic migrants from Albania, not refugees.
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