The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The baby boy was born on a crowded small boat that was rescued off the coast of Lanzarote this week .

The tone of the discourse around migration is now so poisonous that to hear an infant born to a migrant described as a gift as all new babies should be feels heartbreakingly rare.

I write this as the foreign secretary, David Lammy , announces new sanctions aimed at combatting “migrant exploitation”.

Last September , six children and a pregnant woman died in the Channel.

The next month , a four-month-old baby boy died, and a two-year-old boy was trampled to death.

We will see more and more children and pregnant women making such journeys.