A furious truck driver forced four illegal migrants off his lorry bound for Britain after catching them on his trailer.
Footage said to have been captured by a Ukrainian motorist shows the moment he lost his temper with the stowaway immigrants who he found hiding in his lorry while he passed through Calais, France.
The driver can be heard shouting as the four young men disembark the lorry and scurry off into a nearby field.
The motorist follows them for a few seconds before one of the men appears to shove the driver away.
It is not clear when the video, which was shared on social platform X, was filmed.
Thousands of migrants gather in the city of Calais before they attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain – and the truck driver’s encounter is not an uncommon occurrence in the French port town.
The surfacing of the clip comes as the Home Office deported the first three illegal migrants to France this week under the new ‘one in, one out’ deal to remove people who arrive on small boats.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron in July agreed the pilot scheme, under which Britain deports undocumented migrants arriving in small boats to France, in return for accepting an equal number of legitimate asylum seekers with British family connections.
A furious truck driver forced four illegal migrants off his lorry bound for Britain after catching them on his trailer
Footage shared on social platform X shows the moment the Ukrainian motorist lost his temper with the stowaway immigrants who he found hiding in his lorry while he passed through Calais, France
The driver can be heard shouting as the four young men disembark the lorry and scurry off into a nearby field
The Home Office said yesterday that a man who had arrived by small boat in August had been removed on a commercial flight, and that further flights were due to take place this week and next.
‘This is an important first step to securing our borders. It sends a message to people crossing in small boats: if you enter the UK illegally, we will seek to remove you,’ Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a statement.
At the same time, at least three dinghies were seen making their way out to sea from Gravelines beach in Claais, with dozens of migrants brought ashore at Dover by Border Force hours later.
The government said that the first arrivals from France through the new legal route were expected in the coming days.
Starmer’s government faces mounting pressure to stop small boats taking asylum seekers across the Channel from Europe, a route by which more than 30,000 people have come so far in 2025.
On Friday, the Home Office said an Eritrean man was deported to France – making him the second to be removed under Starmer’s new policy.
The man boarded a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15 am on Friday, the Home Office confirmed, after he lost a high court attempt to block the move.
Several hours later, an Iranian man became the third migrant to be removed to France, Home Office sources said.
Hundreds of migrants tried to cross the Channel this morning as the deportation took place.
Migrants try to board a small boat to reach Britain, in Gravelines, northern France, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025
Migrants try to board a crowded smuggler’s boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on September 19, 2025
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, from an RNLI vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel on Friday
At least one inflatable dinghy full of young men made its way out to sea from Gravelines beach, north-east Calais, at daybreak this morning.
As the boat came close to shore, people waded through waist-high water towards it and a child was passed aboard before it went out to sea.
In the town itself at 5.30am, a group of 40 young men appeared from a quiet side street carrying an inflatable boat over their heads before launching it into a canal.
Police officers watched on from the bank as the driver of the boat struggled to keep it in a straight line.
Earlier in the night, a group of men formed a human chain to help haul people out of the mud after a failed attempt to launch a boat in the canal.
