{"id":87974,"date":"2026-04-20T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87974"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:59:50","slug":"hundreds-of-small-boat-migrants-arrive-in-dover-as-channel-crossings-hit-6000-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/hundreds-of-small-boat-migrants-arrive-in-dover-as-channel-crossings-hit-6000-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of small boat migrants arrive in Dover as Channel crossings hit 6,000 this year"},"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\/AA21flD7.img?w=534&amp;h=371&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Border Force catamaran Courageous brings migrants into the Port of Dover on Saturday, which saw a total of 602 arrivals\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 600 small boat migrants reached the UK yesterday, pushing this year\u2019s running total past the 6,000 mark.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/hundreds-of-small-boat-migrants-arrive-in-dover-as-channel-crossings-hit-6-000-this-year\/ar-AA21fjaa?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e5c7fcf8014c0492c8b47e9d589dbe&amp;ei=48&amp;cvpid=69e5cc36dab4449fba8151584d07b8d0\"> 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>More than 600 small boat migrants reached the UK yesterday, pushing this year\u2019s running total past the 6,000 mark. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87974","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\/2025\/12\/Child-migrant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87974","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=87974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87975,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87974\/revisions\/87975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}