Wearing bright orange life jackets, a long line of migrants, all young men in their 20s and 30s, strode up a gangway at Dover yesterday and possibly into a new life in Britain.
They had just been rescued from an inflatable boat drifting in the English Channel – one of at least eight vessels carrying around 250 asylum seekers that made the perilous 20-mile journey across the Strait of Dover.
The men were the latest to reach the UK as part of a criminal enterprise in which people smuggling…