{"id":63762,"date":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63762\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","slug":"bbc-verify-live-fact-checking-trumps-washington-dc-crime-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63762\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Fact checking Trump’s Washington DC crime claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year?published at 11:41 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

11:41 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Rob England
BBC Verify senior data journalist<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

As of 10 August, 26,555 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025, according to official figures, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the highest number at this point in the year since records began in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bSince last year\u2019s general election, 49,797 people have been detected making the journey. That number could pass 50,000 when yesterday\u2019s figures are published later today.<\/p>\n

A Home Office spokesperson said the crossings were dangerous and undermined the UK\u2019s border security.<\/p>\n

The government has pledged to \u201csmash the gangs\u201d behind the illegal crossings and recently launched a \u201cone in, one out\u201d agreement with France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under this deal the UK returns small boat arrivals in exchange for accepting asylum seekers from France through a newly created legal route.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about the government\u2019s pledges on illegal migration and asylum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How many people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year?published at 11:41 British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-63762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}