Claim: 100,000 illegal migrants have been stopped from making the crossing to the UK in the past year.
Fact-check: We don't know that 100,000 illegal migrants have been stopped at the border - Full Fact
Verdict: the data doesn't allow us to say this. this is an unofficial projection based on home office data and depends upon the assumption that foiled attempts to cross the border have continued at the same rate as in april to july this year for the rest of the year.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2015-12-23T00:00:00