Vigilantes from the UK have ramped up efforts to stop migrants crossing the English Channel by targeting small boats in France . Members of the right-wing campaign group Raise the Colours claim to have vessels which they said would have been used to carry asylum seekers across the Channel.

The group argues its activists want to end an "invasion" of illegal immigrants amid claims of inaction on the part of the British and French governments. Migrant support groups say Raise the Colours' actions must be stopped. Nine associations supporting migrants have accused the governments of Britain and France of failing to tackle the vigilantes.

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