Hundreds of migrants are pouring into Britain from Belgium on a new front in the small-boats crisis, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Smugglers are launching vessels from beaches in Flanders as the French clamp down on them under British government pressure.
The migrants are using free buses that shuttle them along the coast to move from the so-called Jungle refugee camps in France to Belgium, where they are then picked up to cross the Channel.
An unprecedented five boats left three Belgian beaches last Saturday carrying more than 200 migrants. They made it to Dover hours later, the MoS understands.
The Belgian arrivals
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