{"id":87814,"date":"2026-04-16T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87814"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:22:51","slug":"now-small-boats-are-being-launched-from-belgium-as-migrants-bypass-french-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/now-small-boats-are-being-launched-from-belgium-as-migrants-bypass-french-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Now small boats are being launched from Belgium as migrants bypass French crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2105pn.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Migrants on board a dinghy on the coast off Gravelines, France | Source: GETTY\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Migrant smugglers have begun launching small boats from Belgium for the first time in a bid to evade a French crackdown on Channel crossings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/now-small-boats-are-being-launched-from-belgium-as-migrants-bypass-french-crackdown\/ar-AA20ZjhN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e093f4b74242d39a3ca534a26053c4&amp;ei=23\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Migrant smugglers have begun launching small boats from Belgium for the first time in a bid to evade a French crackdown on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Police-Belgium.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87815,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87814\/revisions\/87815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}