Seeing a little child in a babygrow at the weekend being hauled by its arms aboard a migrant dinghy by burly men, and a young woman in a hijab waiting as she held two toddlers in lifejackets in the sea off northern France, left me wondering whether people-trafficking villains are now cynically using mothers and babies as a form of human shield to guarantee the lucrative boats make it to our shores.
Shockingly, there were also scores of women, babies and toddlers among the record 260 migrants aboard a 49ft inflatable mega-dinghy that landed on UK shores yesterday.
That dinghy was carrying
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