The U.K.’s Ministry of Defense said 1,295 people in 27 boats were intercepted on August 22.

The figure tops the previous daily record of 1,185 in November last year, according to the BBC. More than 22,000 people have made the journey across the English Channel this year, compared with fewer than 12,500 at the same point last year, the BBC reported.

The latest figures show that dangerous crossings across the English Channel are continuing despite the U.K. government’s plans to deport those who arrive illegally to Rwanda.

A government spokesman told the BBC: “The rise in dangerous Channel crossings is unacceptable.

“Not only are they an overt abuse of our immigration laws but they risk the lives of vulnerable people, who are being exploited by ruthless criminal gangs.” The Ministry of Defense has been contacted for further comment.

It comes after recent reports indicate that people smugglers are using an array of tactics to get people into the U.K.

Authorities are investigating reports that traffickers may be using jet skis to get people to Britain without being detected, The Telegraph reported last week.

The Mail on Sunday reported that some people smugglers were charging up to £17,000 ($20,000) to bring people to the U.K. aboard luxury yachts.

Other smugglers have dropped prices and were putting more people into already overcrowded vessels to make the journey across the Channel, The Guardian said.

TikTok is being used to advertise trafficking services, according to the TV station GB News, with some accounts charging as much as £5,500 ($6,400) per person.

Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson had hoped the threat of deportation to Rwanda would deter people-trafficking gangs that ferry migrants across the English Channel.

The first deportation flight was canceled at the last minute in June after an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights.

Human rights group say the policy is unworkable and unethical. It will be the subject of a legal challenge in London’s High Court in early September.

In the U.S., illegal border crossings fell in July, but numbers were still unusually high.

U.S. authorities stopped migrants 199,976 times that month, down about 4 percent from June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release last week.

“While the encounter numbers remain high, this is a positive trend and the first two-month drop since October 2021,” said CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus.