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A British "charity" has revealed the scale of its handouts to would-be migrants assembling on the French coast ready to illegally cross the Channel to the UK.
Care4Calais, the charity which calls for Britain to accept "refugees" and open the borders, has given hundreds of thousands of freebies to migrants in northern France.
The handouts, branded "support for people on the move" by activists, include more than 2,000 free Sim cards, with six months of data preloaded through a deal between Vodafone and the charity.
Care4Calais's annual report boasts of 162,000 items handed out in the UK and France to nearly 30,000 illegal migrants.
It details how volunteers have hand-delivered 2,221 Vodafone Sim cards, 3,765 hoodies, 3,532 pairs of joggers and 1,174 t shirts to ensure the migrants are clothed and can call and text.
The charity has also given out 2,770 "snug packs" featuring hats, neck-warmers and gloves so they can keep warm, and 1,169 weatherproof garments - which will likely protect against the sea spray in the Channel.
The giveaways also include 1,173 "Ramadan food packs", which form part of the 116,000 items dished out in Calais alone.
One beleaguered Frenchman told the Mail earlier this year that Muslim migrants were coming to Calais from all over France to get their hands on the Ramadan meals.
"They are being enticed here," he said. "The numbers waiting to cross the Channel to get to the UK are growing because of these meals."
Care4Calais also recorded 25,807 unique instances of an individual accessing their services.
It dishes out 3,367 free haircuts, 13,554 phone charging services, 7,124 English lessons, 467 sewing repairs and 1,295 bike repairs.
Though it remains unclear whether a prospective migrant has ever brought a bike with them to Britain.
At British military bases housing illegal migrants, Care4Calais ran 80 "drop-in sessions", 17 large-scale handouts and gave out over 23,000 freebies.
It also provided "new arrival packs" to welcome 1,800 migrants to the South Coast.
"These people are being assisted every inch of the way into our country," former Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley told GB News.
"Onto our shores where there is more division. More anger. More frustration. People go into the streets. I'm surprised that it was only Thetford this week."
Former Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell admitted "an awful lot" of the charity's activists "are naive idealists who think they are doing good".
"If you provide support in the camps in Calais, you are encouraging people to come to this country, regardless of the legitimacy of their asylum claim.
"That's not good. It's not supported by the public and it's not sustainable," he added.
The handouts come as around 13.4 million people - the poorest fifth of the population - live in relative poverty in the UK after accounting for housing costs.
This includes four million children and 1.7 million pensioners, defined as living in households with incomes below 60 per cent of the median average.
Mr Bleksley added that he was far more concerned about "Care4Crayford, Care4Cumbria or Care4Cumberland" than Care4Calais as a result.
The charity's handouts figures emerged mere hours after GB News confirmed hundreds of illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday after weather conditions improved overnight.
The Shadow Home Secretary said just days ago the only reason the number of arrivals had decreased recently was the size of the waves between Britain and France.
One migrant dinghy made it across the Channel undetected yesterday morning until it was just a couple of miles from the Kent coast.
That took the total number of illegal arrivals so far this year to more than 14,500.
Today’s crossings also took the total number of arrivals under Andy Burnham to more than 2,300.
GB News has approached Care4Calais and Vodafone for comment.