Hauliers complain that some of the refugees are becoming more violent

More than one million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe this year

Staggering figures showing the flood of illegal migrants trying to sneak into Britain were released last night.

At the current rate, nearly 100,000 people will be stopped at our besieged borders during 2015/6 – a massive rise on the previous year.

The shocking statistics are a nightmare for Government ministers – made even worse because the total ignores the thousands of stowaways thought to have made it across the Channel. Further startling figures yesterday showed that more than a million migrants have entered Europe this year – a four-fold increase on 2014.

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Nearly 100,000 people have been stopped trying to enter the country over the past 12 months

Many migrants have been allowed to cross unhindered through Europe until they get to Calais, pictured

Up to 7,000 migrants are currently holed up in the shanty town outside Calais which is called 'The Jungle'

Again the figures do not cover those who entered undetected. Nor do they cover all border crossings.

UK Border Force officials foiled 30,629 attempts to cross to Britain illegally between April and July – an annual rate of 92,000.

This compares with 39,546 caught in the 12 months of April 2014 to March 2015. The full year before that it was just 18,000.

‘These figures show that the number of people attempting to cross the Channel has increased dramatically,’ said Keith Vaz, a senior Labour MP.

‘The problem simply has not been solved by political agreements between Britain and France or by additional resources. This is something that is going to occupy the minds of ministers for some time to come.’

Up to 7,000 migrants, some with children and babies, are holed up in a shanty town near Calais called The Jungle, using it as a springboard for illegal entry to the UK.

Many are fleeing humanitarian disasters but often they are economic migrants attracted by jobs, lavish benefits and free accommodation in the UK.

Mr Vaz, the chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, said Calais was a town ‘in crisis’ despite additional security.

He added: ‘While we must commend Border Force officials for picking up more people, it still shows more people are trying to get into the UK. By the law of averages, more will be succeeding in getting through and reaching Britain.’

Truckers are complaining that they are getting overwhelmed by migrants trying to force their way into the UK

Labour MP Keith Vaz, chair of the Commons home affairs committee said that Calais was a town in 'crisis'

Peter Cullum, of the Road Haulage Association, said: ‘Have the numbers peaked? If they have not we have got a real problem. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see 100,000 migrants caught by the end of the year.

‘But this creates another problem: those that can’t sneak into the port become more and more desperate, and that leads to more and more attacks and intimidation against our drivers.’ Lord Green of Deddington, the chairman of Migrationwatch, which campaigns for managed migration, said the figures were clear evidence of the rapidly growing pressure on our borders. ‘The Home Office should now publish their estimate of the numbers that are actually getting through,’ he added.

Although tensions in Calais have simmered for years, migrants are now making repeated attempts to storm lorries, the docks and the Eurotunnel terminal.

Many had been waved across mainland Europe to Calais where they have been laying siege to the Tunnel.

The Home Office figures do not include migrants caught during August and September – two of the worst months for trouble.

Yesterday lorry drivers claimed migrants were not being picked up by French scanning equipment designed to spot stowaways hiding in trailers.

Desperate migrants try to break into trucks heading towards the Channel Tunnel and the ports to enter the UK

They said officials allow suspect wagons through, allowing France to wash its hands of the asylum seekers on board. David Currie, a haulier from Scotland, was given the all-clear but demanded French police search his vehicle as he had seen migrants climbing aboard.

After a wait of nearly nine hours, officers arrived and found 12 stowaways. At a later British customs post still more were found.

He said: ‘It’s a farce – 20 in my trailer and I get a green light.’

Hauliers can be fined up to £2,000 for each illegal found on their lorry when they arrive in the UK. Drivers have branded the scanning system a lottery with proper checks not carried out at busy times.

Transport firms say French police simply release any captured stowaways, allowing them to have another go at getting across the Channel. Yet France has still found the means to turn away over 3,400 people from its borders since a state of emergency was introduced in the wake of the Paris terror attack.

UK officers in Calais use sniffer dogs, carbon dioxide detectors, heartbeat monitors and scanners to find stowaways.

Britain has also given £12million to the French to enhance security measures, including a 9ft fence. Dubbed the ‘ring of steel’, it was fencing used to protect world leaders who attended the Nato summit in Wales in September last year.