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French authorities have announced plans to close ‘The Jungle’, an unsanitary and illegal makeshift camp in Calais which houses around 1,500 migrants all desperate to get into Britain.
Many of these unfortunate people have paid people traffickers extortionate amounts to get there from their home countries, and their sad, and often dangerous, attempts to get into Britain are often featured in the media.
Curiously, the move to close this camp is said to send a strong message that people traffickers can no longer use Calais as their base. Note that the move seems not to be meant to refer to France as a base for illegal migrants - just Calais.
The French seem to have ambivalent views about illegals trying to get into Britain and appear not to do very much about the problem.
There would seem to me to be two ways of curtailing illegal immigration generally now that EU borders are open.
The first is for the French to take a much stronger line with illegals and either deal with them themselves or send them back either to the country from which they entered France or, if they wish, back to their home countries.
The second is for Britain to immediately stop welfare payments to all illegals other than those demonstrably escaping oppressive regimes and seeking genuine asylum.
But something needs to be done and not just the closure of one migrant camp which will merely be moved elsewhere.
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French authorities have announced plans to close ‘The Jungle’, an unsanitary and illegal makeshift camp in Calais which houses around 1,500 migrants all desperate to get into Britain.
Many of these unfortunate people have paid people traffickers extortionate amounts to get there from their home countries, and their sad, and often dangerous, attempts to get into Britain are often featured in the media.
Curiously, the move to close this camp is said to send a strong message that people traffickers can no longer use Calais as their base. Note that the move seems not to be meant to refer to France as a base for illegal migrants - just Calais.
The French seem to have ambivalent views about illegals trying to get into Britain and appear not to do very much about the problem.
There would seem to me to be two ways of curtailing illegal immigration generally now that EU borders are open.
The first is for the French to take a much stronger line with illegals and either deal with them themselves or send them back either to the country from which they entered France or, if they wish, back to their home countries.
The second is for Britain to immediately stop welfare payments to all illegals other than those demonstrably escaping oppressive regimes and seeking genuine asylum.
But something needs to be done and not just the closure of one migrant camp which will merely be moved elsewhere.
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