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Albanian migrants have boasted of visits to the London Eye just days after crossing the Channel in small boats.
They have posted videos and pictures on TikTok recording their journey from Albania, across the Channel on small boats to arrive in London where they have visited tourist sites including the Millennium Wheel and soldiers from the King’s Troop on sentry duty in London.
The Albanians are said by official sources to arrive “well schooled and briefed” in how to make asylum or modern slavery claims so that they are released within as little as 24 hours of arrival while their cases are assessed.
Home Office figures on Thursday revealed the number of Albanians crossing the Channel has risen 100-fold in a year. Up to 6,000 are said to have arrived in the UK in 2022 after paying people smugglers. That represents a quarter of the record 24,000 total this year, double last year’s rate.
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