Children have been seen arriving on small boats.
The migrant footage was described as the “worst I’ve ever seen” by a GB News guest (Image: GB News)
The latest development in the ongoing migrant crisis has been branded the “worst I’ve ever seen” on GB News. Sue Reid, Special Investigations Editor at the Daily Mail, has reacted to the disturbing footage of unaccompanied migrant children arriving in small boats. She described the incident as “trafficking” as she pointed out that no one on the boat claimed responsibility for the children. “There were some images put out yesterday morning which sort of finalised the journey that we were making with the migrants last week, where they were being trafficked, and it is trafficking, in battalions, families, children, many children in battalions being marched around to the station and then to the beaches,” Reid explained.
“The footage yesterday was particularly appalling, and I’ve seen terrible things in my career.
“People were screaming to get on this boat. A baby was crying on the boat.
“Two girls were moved by the traffickers, hauled off and put in another part of the boat.
“No parent said, ‘Hey, she’s mine.’ Nothing like that.”
She continued: “It was inhumane and the worst I’ve ever, ever seen.”
Reid revealed that 200 children a month are arriving at The Kent Intake Unit, a short-term holding and processing facility operated by the Home Office for people arriving via small boats across the English Channel, including unaccompanied children.
She added: “At least 10 per cent of the 1,600 who will have come across this year will have been kids.”
Reid clarified that while some migrants are adults posing as children, genuine youngsters are also being “marched” onto boats alongside people traffickers.
“The traffickers are the obvious target. But, in my opinion, this is trafficking by others too, or indeed collusion.
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“I really do blame the charities for not stopping this. If you set yourself up as a refugee charity, you jolly well need refugees, don’t you? And I’m sorry to be cynical. But it was horrifying, these images.”
Around 263 migrants arrived in the UK last Thursday as Channel crossing attempts continued after a three-week hiatus.
Several children were among a large group of people wearing life-jackets as they were brought ashore in Dover, Kent.
After three boats successfully crossed, the total number of arrivals for 2026 stood at 21,198, according to Home Office figures.