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Exclusive: Just 6% of Iranian 'boat' migrants have been deported
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October 11, 2019
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7:29Now PlayingBoris Johnson said in 2018 during the channel crossing that the UK would send back migrants arriving illegally on small boats but Sky News found few have been deported.
The Home Office has refused to say how many migrants have crossed the Channel from France into the UK on small boats between December 2018 and October this year.
Sky News has collated data from multiple sources, including police records and local reports of arrivals, and calculated the number to be 1,456.
The Home Office says it has returned "over 85" this year, which means that only around 6% - or one in 17 - have been sent back.
It told Sky News that refugees should seek asylum in the first safe country they reach.
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