'Hundreds' in, two out: Multiple boats cross the Channel just hours after second migrant deported

An inflatable dinghy full of men, women and at least three children made its way out to sea from Gravelines beach, north-east Calais, at daybreak on Friday morning.

As the boat came close to shore, a man waded through the water towards it with a baby on his shoulders.

There were no police on the beach as the boat made its way out to sea monitored by a French coastguard vessel.

Those who could not get on the boat walked back towards the sand dunes.

At 9am local time, a boat full of young men was overtaken by local fishing vessels as it motored along a canal linking the town’s quay to the sea.

At about 5.30am, a group of 40 people appeared from a quiet side street in the town carrying an inflatable boat over their heads before launching it into the canal.

Police officers watched on from the shore as the driver of the boat struggled to keep it in a straight line.

Earlier in the night, a group of migrants linked arms to form a human chain down a steep bank to haul people out of the mud after a failed attempt to launch a boat in the canal.

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People walking along the seafront stopped to look, including an angry British tourist who said he was “never coming back to France”.

“Where are the police? They’re doing nothing,” he said.

Meanwhile, a second migrant has been deported to France under the Government’s “one in, one out” deal.

An Eritrean man who lost a High Court bid to halt his removal was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday.

He argued in court that he was an 'alleged trafficking victim' and his barristers asked for an 'interim relief' because deportation would risk multiple human rights breaches.

But the man's bid failed – and it was confirmed this morning that he was on an Air France flight from London which left for Paris at 6.39am.

Yesterday Donald Trump said migrants were destroying Britain ‘from within’ and that the nation should ‘call out the military’ to control its borders.

He said Britain should follow the US in taking tough action to control borders.

“I think your situation is very similar,” he said.

“ You have people coming in and I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn’t matter if you call out the military, it doesn’t matter what means you use,” Trump said.

“It destroys countries from within and we’re actually now removing a lot of the people that came into our country.”