People were rescued on Tuesday while crossing the Channel and brought to Dover, hours after the UK approved its Rwanda deportation bill. Footage by Sky News showed a UK Border Force vessel approaching a small, crowded boat to rescue people onboard. Those saved were later seen disembarking from the rescue boat in Dover and walking to a facility. Meanwhile, French authorities said five people, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the Channel in a small boat near the town of Wimereux, south of Calais. The latest crossings come only hours after the British prime minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some asylum seekers on a one-way ticket to Rwanda finally won approval from parliament Five people die in attempt to cross Channel in small boat from France