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Officials have noted a significant increase in attempted crossings over the past few days. The water is icy, so survival time in the water is very short. More than 36, migrants have made the perilous Channel crossing so far this year, more than in , though fewer than in Billant also blamed human traffickers for putting lives at risk. In November, a French court convicted 18 people in a migrant-smuggling trial that shed light on the lucrative but often deadly clandestine business of transporting people across the English Channel.
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