The UK will help fund a detention centre in France to try and stop migrants from crossing the Channel, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron have announced.
The new centre will support French efforts to increase detention capacity, allowing more migrants who might otherwise travel by dangerous and illegal routes to the UK to be removed from the French coast, the prime minister's office said.
The new package will also see the deployment of more French personnel and enhanced technology to patrol beaches, they added.A spokesperson for the prime minister said:"For the first time, the UK will help fund a detention centre in France to enhance the country's ability to cope with the level of people being trafficked across the Channel.
"This new centre will support French efforts to increase detention capacity, allowing more migrants who might otherwise travel by dangerous and illegal routes to the UK to be removed from the French coast." French President Emmanuel Macron said:"We do have a geography that binds us, and that's why I'd say this summit has been exceptional."
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