New photo Sajid Javid urged to get a grip on the Channel migrant crisis ‘as 450 try to cross in two months’

SAJID JAVID was last night urged to get a grip on the Channel migrant crisis – amid claims 450 have tried to cross in just two months.

Tories demanded the Home Secretary bring ‘patrol vessels’ back from the Med, given just two are currently available to Border Force staff here.

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It’s claimed 450 migrants have attempted to cross the Channel in the past two months, with 40 being rescued on Christmas Day[/caption]

Another two are being used in the EU-wide counter trafficking operation in the the Med. Charlie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover said: “It’s time to bring back our boats before there is a tragedy in the English Channel.”

It came as nine more migrants were picked up Border Force officers at Sandgate, to the west of Folkestone yesterday morning.

Some 40, including two children, were rescued on Christmas Day.

And Border Force union chiefs claimed far more migrants are attempting the perilous crossing than the 300 said to have done so in the past eight weeks.

Sajid Javid is being pushed to get a grip of the Channel migrant crisis by Tory MPs

Lucy Moreton of the Immigration Services Union, told The Sun: “I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 50 per cent higher and at least 450 to 500.

“You’re only currently hearing about the ones picked up by RNLI or the coastguard, Border Force don’t publish their numbers.”

“And then of course you’ve got the ones who make it successfully – that no one will ever know about.”

Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes issued a public statement yesterday insisting the Home Office was working closely with French authorities.

Lucy Moreton says there are even more migrants entering the country who either make it in successfully or aren’t reported

She blamed the surge in migrant crossing on organised criminals but also “opportunistic” migrants attempting to reach Britain.

Government insiders also point to Serbia’s decision last year to grant visa-free travel to Iranians.

The scheme was closed in October after thousands used the legal route as a way of getting to the country – and then crossing into EU countries.

Ministers here were warned about huge gaps in border security two months ago in a damning report which claimed over-stretched staff cannot stop illegal migrants sneaking into Britain.

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Charlie Elphicke says our patrol vessels must be brought back before ‘there is a tragedy in the English Channel’[/caption]

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A group including two children were rescued by UK Border Force after crossing[/caption]

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An independent inspector said Border Force employees were being run ragged at ports across the south-coast by migrants often armed with “better intelligence” than those out to stop them.

It highlighted that Border Force currently only has five working patrol boats or “cutters” – with two deployed in the Channel and two in the Mediterranean working in the EU-wide migrant operation. The fifth is kept on ‘standby’.

Mr Elphicke said: “When you have two cutters in operation to patrol more than 7,000 miles of coastline it’s no wonder more and more people are attempting this perilous crossing.”

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