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Calais. Armed people smugglers blocking roads.
anne_666
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For once I agree with the Mayor of Calais, call in the army.
This is happening while popular tourist beaches waste the time of countless police to seek out, humiliate and punish burqini wearing women.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-37186868
This is happening while popular tourist beaches waste the time of countless police to seek out, humiliate and punish burqini wearing women.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-37186868
Footage of armed people-smugglers going to extreme lengths to get migrants in Calais across the Channel to Kent has been recorded by the BBC.
Masked men wielding large sticks are shown blocking the main route to the French port with a felled tree and threatening motorists with violence.
BBC South East witnessed migrants being directed to break into lorries brought to a sudden halt by the men.
Calais authorities said the road was a "no-go zone" between midnight and 6am.
An additional 140 French police officers are due to be drafted into Calais from this weekend.
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Why the french are happy to show the UK is a more attractive destination than France post brexit is laughable. Maybe they should educate the immigrants and disperse them. 9 thousand is nothing in the overall scheme of EU migration in recent months let alone years so seems a strange problem to be getting so much media attention without a proper solution.
It's clearly become a huge problem,
They don't speak English in France, innit.
These immigrants don't want to be educated and dispersed in France though, they want to come to the UK. The French Tourist Board is not to blame.
Indeed. Is this the highest number of France's illegal immigrants they've ever had in Calais? The police can't be expected to deal with this lot on their own. Greater numbers of asylum seekers than last year are streaming into Italy from NA and it's easier to reach France than the Aegean/Greece route.
Why not?
Grrrr......:D
They're not too keen on making this lot of their illegal immigrants stay in France and stick to maintaining that they're the UK's problem.
Migrants generally want to come to the UK if they have relatives here, speak the language or seek to disappear into the shadow economy. We also treat asylum seekers marginally better than the French do.
Yes and it's bad enough for drivers when people aren't armed. What has to happen before anything's done about such an increasingly dangerous situation?
Yet any attempt ever to even discuss the issue will have you branded as unwelcoming to migrants at best and racist at worst.
Clearly the last bulldozing solution didn't work.
Nothing has ever worked. The only thing which would have stopped this years ago and until we leave the EU is the UK returning anyone crossing the channel back to wherever they came from, in this case France.
That's been a major problem on previous threads. I was branded both for stating that a large number of the migrants were not genuine asylum seekers. Turns out I and many others were right even though we were also branded "heartless".
It's not remotely controversial, Asylum applications run at 40k per year max.
Net migration has been 300k+ for the last three years.
I feel really sorry for the native inhabitants of Calais.
If that's not the definition of an oxymoron . . .
So do I, the immigrants at Calais many are showing that they are not in fact desperate to flee anywhere as if they were they would have applied for asylum in the first safe country, instead they abuse the EU open borders and wander to France to get here. Personally I think they should be removed from Calais and given a choice of applying for asylum in the first country they arrived in or returning home, the majority appear not to be Syrians fleeing for their lives .
Mind you Jean Claude Juncker will not help matters by his latest speech claiming borders are the worst thing invented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvSLrSxL_eQ
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/juncker-criticised-saying-national-borders-are-worst-invention-ever
I hope some of them are taking vitamin D supplements. It can't be healthy.
Healthier than skin cancer, I expect.
This is why the internet has failed to produce a solution for the problem.
And not even a smiley...............:o
Vitamin D or skin cancer? What a conundrum!
Nuts.
you'd probably prefer the word superfluous. It's even more difficult to spell.
Na I have spellcheck dude.
Why so bitchy?