STEVE REIGATE Migrants have been photographed setting up tents on French cliffs facing the UK

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A brazen gang loitering in beachside tents awaiting smuggler boats to take them to Britain yesterday said paper thin border security is behind the success rate. Their ramshackle camp precariously perched on and beneath a crumbling clifftop yards from the open beach in Dieppe is one of the new launchpads to the UK. It is home to 150 eastern Europeans economic migrants desperate to join friends and family who have already made it across the English Channel.

One boasted how he slipped into Britain on the back of a lorry two years ago and worked as a plasterer before he was caught and returned home to Albania.

England is a good country, for me there is lots of opportunity to work Jimmy Korbi from Tirana

But he said that having once again made his way up through northern France to Normandy, he and his colleagues would seek to exploit Britain’s “non-existent security” across the south coast of England. He said that smugglers were using French fishermen to ferry scores across the Channel to within sight of the English coastline. Jimmy Korbi from Tirana said: “I would say more than 50 Albanians reach Britain every week from northern France.

“Some of my friends paid £7,000 to get across. I made it to the UK the first time by hiding underneath a lorry and worked for two years but boat is the best way now. “England is a good country, for me there is lots of opportunity to work.” His candid admission shatters the myth the UK border is safe and secure exposing it as a revolving door to thousands who want to plunder jobs and benefits. Fluent English speaking Jimmy, 24, said he was shopped to Border Force earlier this year and was put on a flight back to Albania. But immediately after he was repatriated he headed back to Dieppe - the port from where he stowed away in 2014 - to prepare a fresh assault. His detailed first-hand explanation sheds fresh light on the rush to reach Britain where millions of cash-in-hands jobs are waiting in the black economy.

STEVE REIGATE Some migrants are charged £7,000 to be taken across the Channel

The camp in Dieppe, 120 miles south of Calais, gives the men a strategic view of the ferry port and miles of unprotected beach. Ferry crossings to the Sussex port of Newhaven 75 miles away take four hours but a trip on a rigid inflatable can be done in half the time. Colleague Igor Ogazidede, 16, said: “A friend told me he had made it to England on Tuesday night. I want to go because I have family who are there working on the black market. It is easier to try here than in Calais.” The camp sits just 150 yards from the bustling ferry terminal. Yesterday migrants were able to loiter at the port entrance unchallenged, keeping in constant communication with those who had crossed the Channel via mobile phones.

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Landi Iskurti, 20, said: “I want to get to England for a job and better life. I will try every night.” Smugglers have turned to rhibs and fishing vessels because the traditional method of stowing away on lorries is seen as outdated and unsophisticated. Sources say the lucrative trade in human trafficking along the northern French coast alone is now worth £6billion a year. Criminal networks masterminding the rocketing trade pay fishermen around £1,000 per trip, pocketing 90 per cent of the £7,000 handling fee. Calais, where thousands of migrants still live in the notorious “Jungle” camp, was once the favoured smuggling route. But armed gangs now transport their human cargo along an unprotected coastline stretching from Calais to Cherbourg.

STEVE REIGATE The camp is in Dieppe, 120 south of Calais

The racket is so lucrative “moneyed migrants” are taken across the Channel close to the English coast before they are transferred to smaller dinghies to make the journey ashore. Brussels bureaucrats have given Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Turkey approval in principle to be the next to join the EU club, making them “candidate countries”. Ukip MEP Mike Hookem said: “If you think things are bad now, just wait until these countries join and get free movement to the UK. “We already know the large percentage of crimes carried out in Britain are by foreign gangs exploiting EU open borders and treating this country like a giant pocket to pick. “Can anyone point to a candidate country which didn’t succeed in joining political union?” No official figures for the number of illegal crossings attempted are available, but the Daily Express was told as many 400 migrants could be trying to reach the UK each week by boat.

STEVE REIGATE A French customs boat on its way to harbour