Six suspected migrants have been discovered in a small boat in the English Channel.
Coastguards were alerted to the vessel off the Kent coast at around 5.40am on Thursday.
The Lydd-based search and rescue helicopter and the Border Force cutter, HMC Valiant, were scrambled.
A Border Force spokesman said: "Six men were recovered from the boat and are due to be interviewed by Border Force officers."
The
National Crime Agency revealed earlier this year that migrants trying
to reach the UK were paying people smugglers up to £13,500 for their
journey.
Some of those who want to come to Britain are quoted five-figure sums
to make the trip by air, while others are thought to have spent up to
£12,000 to travel from France in inflatable boats.
Investigators
suspect that as well as using the main Channel crossing from Calais to
Dover, criminals could be using less busy ports such as Tilbury,
Purfleet, Hull, Immingham and Newhaven.
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