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Migrants are now smuggled to Britain on small boats as far away as the Netherlands

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“Migrants are now smuggled to Britain on small boats as far away as the Netherlands”

Authorities intercepted what they believe is the first small-boat smuggling attempt to launch from the Netherlands. A rubber dinghy packed with 38 migrants was discovered drifting without an engine off the southern Dutch coast last Saturday. Emergency crews towed it to the nearby port of Cadzand, in the Zeeland province, and two Sudanese men were arrested on suspicion of being involved in human smuggling, Dutch prosecutors said. A magistrate ordered their detention for 14 days on Tuesday, and…

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