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She added that in the first six months of this year - when the Conservatives were still in office - there was an 18% increase in small boat crossings.

The porousness of the border is apparent about 20 miles down the road, at the Kapitan Andreevo crossing, uniting Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey - the busiest such border in Europe.

In his first broadcast interview since taking up the job in September, Martin Hewitt said there was no "simple answer" to stopping people crossing the Channel in small boats.

The video shows a convoy of Russian armour being repelled after making it to within 4km of the key bridge at Kupiansk, the last major road crossing in the area.

On immigration: Didn’t she take office seeking to decriminalize illegal border crossings and didn’t she and Biden wait too long to deal with the border problem?