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Johnson addressed MPs after the sun over the English Channel and calm seas prompted a surge in migrants arriving in the UK on Tuesday and Wednesday.
More than 100 people were brought to Dover this morning, packed aboard Border Force patrol boats and seated in lifeboats.
Several children and toddlers were seen being cared for.
Addressing the House of Commons, Johnson said: “I have a lot of sympathy for those who are desperate enough to put their children in boats or even kiddie pools and try to cross the English Channel.
“But I have to say that what they are doing is falling prey to criminal gangs and they are breaking the law. They are also undermining the legitimate claims of others who would seek asylum in this country.”
That is why we will take advantage of leaving the EU by changing Dublin’s rules on returns and addressing the rigidities in our laws that make this country, I fear, a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people. In this way.”
In its current form, the Dublin Regulation means that asylum applications must be processed in the first EU country where someone claiming to be a refugee sets foot.
If a migrant applies for asylum in Britain, officials can check that person’s name to see if it has been previously registered by authorities in other parts of the EU. If the claimant is logged in, for example France, Great Britain can initiate a procedure to return that person to France, which is supposed to consider the asylum application.
The Interior Ministry was forced to abandon a deportation flight that was returning illegal Canal immigrants to Spain last Thursday after human rights lawyers took last-minute legal action.
