Manston’s staff asked to work overtime in the midst of record number of small boat arrivals | Manston Asylum Center

Staff of the Manston Migrant Processing Center in Kent has been asked to work overtime to tackle the record number of small boat arrivals, the Guardian has learned.

The 11th -hour appeal to the staff on Saturday evening to work, was distributed by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), one of the contractors of the Home Office on the site near Ramsgate, because of concerns about not having enough staff employed.

More than 1,100 migrants arrived after crossing the canal on Saturday, the highest number recorded in a single day so far this year. The latest figures from the home office show that 1,194 people have arrived in 18 boats, so that the provisional annual total has been brought to 14,811.

This is 42% higher than the same point last year (10,448) and 95% higher than the same point in 2023 (7,610). It is still lower than the highest daily total of 1,305 arrivals since the data started in 2018, which was registered on 3 September 2022.

A source said that staff shortages, in particular for night shifts, were a long -term concern at Manston, which was criticized because they are looking for people in the UK in squalidic and unsafe circumstances in the UK.

Speaking on Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News, said John Healey: “The truth is, the lost control of Great -Britain over its borders in the past five years, and the last government last year left an shelter system in chaos and record levels of immigration.”

The Minister of Defense said it was a “really big problem” that the French police were unable to intercept to intercept boats in shallow water and that the UK penetrated France to put new rules into effect so that it could intervene.

The record number of intersections came after a report has shown that the number of asylum seekers, including children who have been imprisoned for crossing the canal in small boats, has doubled last year.

The report, “I told them the truth”, of border criminologies and the Center for Criminology at the University of Oxford, contains casework information of the NGOS people for Law Network, Captain Support UK and Refugee Legal Support, Data of Freedom of Information Data, Observations of the Court of Pris by the PRISUFTING and interviews.

The investigation shows that since the previous government has introduced the nationality and the Borders Act, which contains the new crime of “illegal arrival”, the number of people convicted of this crime has risen from 253 between June 2022 and October 2023 to 455 between June 2022 and December 2024. Many of those prosecuted, including conflict zones and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and,,,, and,,, and,,, and,,, and,,, and,, and,,, and,,, and Syna, and,,, and Synda.

The report said that about half of the convicts were accused of sending rubber tires over the channel. Researchers discovered that many were forced or agreed by smugglers because they could not afford to pay a place on a rubber boat.

Of those who have been persecuted since 2022, 29 told the home office that they were children, but were registered as adults. Finally, 18 of them spent time in prison cells with adults. Seventeen out of 29 were later accepted as children, while others still undergo the age assessment process by social workers.

Of the 29 are all the second black African, mainly from Sudan and South Sudan.

The report calls for the immediate end of the criminalization of people who have no way to claim asylum in the UK, other than traveling via rubber boat or in the back of a truck.

Yassin, 17, who was prosecuted as an adult and was imprisoned with adults for boat control, even though he insisted that he was a child, was confirmed as 17 after an assessment of social services.

He said: “The time I pass there [Elmley prison]I would not want to wish for my enemy to spend that time. They are really bad days, bad days. People think that six months and eight days is easy, but it is not easy. You can lose your mind. “

Sources from home office said that the chance that children are locked up as adults for immigration delicents, to reduce, had updated civil servants to ensure that the cases of the age were identified by the CPS at the CPS when a referral for prosecution was made.

A spokesperson for the home office said: “We all want to put an end to dangerous small boat transitions, threaten lives and undermine our border protection. The people who have colored gangs do not care or the vulnerable people they live or die, as long as they pay and we will stop their business models and bring them to the judge.

“We introduce new laws that will stimulate and dismantle our ability to identify criminal gangs, the action we take to tackle illegal work and to strengthen the safety of our limits.”

MTC has been approached for comment.