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  According to the Telegraph:
  
  A new policy on passport checks at the main cross-Channel terminals to crack down on illegal immigration could cause holidaymakers chaos - including five-mile queues.
  
  From 8 April, every tourist leaving the UK will have their passports checked at ferry points for the first time in 20 years.
  
  According to the Daily Telegraph, families looking to catch holiday ferries to France could be left to "fry in their cars" on the A20 at the end of the M20 motorway as staff struggle to process cars at passport control.
  
  One source told the paper: "There is all manner of health and safety risks imaginable from toddlers needing to go the toilet through to families frying in cars on a summer's day."
  
  The paper adds that the checks could double the amount of time it takes to pass a car through with a family of four inside, sparking concerns that queues will build up out of ferry ports, particularly at Dover, which handles 60 per cent of Britain's ferry traffic.
  
  
  
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