China Caught Supplying Britain with Hijabs for Illegal Migrants and 'Profiting' Off Crisis. From GB News

China supplied nearly 1,000 Islamic headscarves handed to illegal migrants by Britain this year, GB News can reveal.

Labour has been accused of allowing Beijing to "profit at both ends" of the UK's migrant crisis after it emerged people smugglers were sourcing boats from China to ferry asylum seekers across the English Channel and break into the country.

Internal Home Office figures recently obtained by The Mail on Sunday showed 974 Muslim face coverings were given to those landing on the south coast between January and June 2026 – a rate of 162 every month.

And a Freedom of Information request lodged by the People's Channel revealed Mitie Group, a company that manages immigration services, had purchased the hijabs from Xi Jinping's nation on behalf of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

It comes as it was discovered mega-dinghies, used to send hundreds of foreigners from mainland Europe towards Britain in a single trip, were being advertised for sale on Chinese websites.

On Alibaba, often called China's Amazon, hundreds of purchasable vessels are advertised identical to those used to cross the Channel, including a 32ft dinghy for £2,200.

Half of the engines that power the vessels are also manufactured in China.

The decision to source headscarves from the People's Republic sparked outrage, given illegal migrants may have made their way to Britain's shores on boats bought from the same country.

"The Home Office is handing out free clothing to people who arrived illegally, and now we learn it's made in China — the same country supplying many of the parts used in the boats," Robert Bates, Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, told Britain's News Channel.

He continued: "The Chinese Communist Party is making a pretty penny out of our migration crisis — profiting when the boats set off, and profiting again when the migrants land."

Sourcing the hijabs from China also led to claims of moral hypocrisy levelled against the British state, given its stance on Beijing's treatment of its own Muslim Uyghur population.

The UK Government has repeatedly condemned China's persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, accusing officals of arbitrary detention, forced labour and systematic human rights abuses.

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