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http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/0...-foot-high-concrete-wall-to-keep-migrants-out
Britain, the land of pale-skinned hypocrites.
Donald Trump will be proud.
Britain is constructing a 13 foot-high concrete wall to stop migrants reaching the U.K. from the northern French port of Calais.
The $30-million wall will run about 1 km around the main highway and port.
Construction is to start soon.
“People are still getting through,” Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill said Tuesday, confirming the ambitious plan. “We’ve done the fence, now we are doing a wall.”
The wall comes just months after Brexit, when Britons voted to leave the European Union, partly to regain independent control of migration into their country.
Thousands of people, most from the Middle East and Africa, have arrived in Calais, hoping to reach Britain by stowing away on trucks and trains through the Channel Tunnel.
Many live in an overcrowded camp known as “the jungle,” which French authorities have vowed to dismantle. As many as 10,000 migrants now populate the tent city.
To discourage them, authorities have poured in police officers and built high barbed-wire fences. But migrants are using increasingly dangerous tactics to slow trucks and hitch a ride.
Videos have shown armed gangs pulling over trucks, as well as fire and tree trunks being used on the roadways to slow vehicles so they can board.
Aid group Auberge des Migrants says 11 migrants have died this year — seven on the highways.
On Monday, truckers, farmers, dock workers and merchants blocked a main access road to protest the disruption, as well as the fines they face if caught carrying stowaways.
Britain, the land of pale-skinned hypocrites.
Donald Trump will be proud.
Britain is constructing a 13 foot-high concrete wall to stop migrants reaching the U.K. from the northern French port of Calais.
The $30-million wall will run about 1 km around the main highway and port.
Construction is to start soon.
“People are still getting through,” Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill said Tuesday, confirming the ambitious plan. “We’ve done the fence, now we are doing a wall.”
The wall comes just months after Brexit, when Britons voted to leave the European Union, partly to regain independent control of migration into their country.
Thousands of people, most from the Middle East and Africa, have arrived in Calais, hoping to reach Britain by stowing away on trucks and trains through the Channel Tunnel.
Many live in an overcrowded camp known as “the jungle,” which French authorities have vowed to dismantle. As many as 10,000 migrants now populate the tent city.
To discourage them, authorities have poured in police officers and built high barbed-wire fences. But migrants are using increasingly dangerous tactics to slow trucks and hitch a ride.
Videos have shown armed gangs pulling over trucks, as well as fire and tree trunks being used on the roadways to slow vehicles so they can board.
Aid group Auberge des Migrants says 11 migrants have died this year — seven on the highways.
On Monday, truckers, farmers, dock workers and merchants blocked a main access road to protest the disruption, as well as the fines they face if caught carrying stowaways.
