Over 100 migrants arrive in the UK on little boats after a spell of good weather bringing the total number of arrivals for the year to a record 17,284

Crammed into a dinghy somewhere in the middle of the Channel, a child sucks on a dummy. Nearby in the overcrowded migrant boat, a man blows into a toy rubber ring in an apparent bid to use the flimsy device as a rudimentary life jacket. Several figures at the stern covered their faces with hoods, potentially because the Home Office is more likely to lay immigration crime charges against anyone who takes the tiller of a migrant boat. Crammed into a dinghy somewhere in the middle of the Channel, a child sucks on a dummy Nearby in the overcrowded migrant boat, a man blows into a toy rubber ring in an apparent bid to use the flimsy device as a rudimentary life jacket A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel These startling images were captured by drone today as the latest migrant vessels made their way from France to the UK The photographs, showing at least 60 people onboard the dinghy, viscerally illustrate how evil people trafficking gangs dispatch boats with no regard for human life A man, who appears to have a bandage around his wrist, is driven away on a coach from the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent Another man who arrived on a small boat is pictured sleeping on the coach Two women who came to Dover on small boats are pictured in the coach The Mail revealed last month how we found wrappings from 17 children's inflatable toy rings on the sands at Gravelines beach, near Calais. Dozens of migrants straddled the edge of the inflatable vessel, with others cowered in the deck well Several figures at the stern covered their faces with hoods, potentially because the Home Office is more likely to lay immigration crime charges against anyone who takes the tiller of a migrant boat The total since the beginning of the year has now reached 17,284, up 15 per cent on the same point last year An inflatable dinghy carrying migrants passes a passenger ferry as it makes its way towards England in the English Channel today The total since the beginning of the year has now reached 17,284, up 15 per cent on the same point last year.