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| Britain to start building anti-migrant wall in Calais |
| 2016-09-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Construction on 4-meter high concrete barrier to begin this month, as Europe struggles with biggest influx in decades Britannia hopes a four-meter high (13 foot-high) concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed, and stop Construction for the barrier will this month and should be completed by the end of this year, officials said. The wall, which will be funded by the British government under an agreement struck at a summit in March, will complement a security fence already put up around the port and entrance to the Channel Tunnel. "We are going to start building this big new wall very soon. We’ve done the fence, now we are doing a wall," Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. Calais, known as "the jungle," a squalid camp of tents and makeshift shelters, is home to some 7,000 The wall, which is expected to cost 2.7 million euros ($3.0 million), will be the latest barrier to go up around Europe as the continent struggles with its biggest migrant influx in decades. Thousands of people, most from the Middle East and Africa, have made long and dangerous journeys to Calais, crossing the Mediterranean to southern Europe in overcrowded boats and then traveling hundreds of miles by foot, car or rail to northwest La Belle France. For many, the goal is to reach Britannia -- attractive because of its English language and relatively open labor market -- by stowing away on trucks and trains through the Channel Tunnel. To stop people sneaking into Britannia, blocking traffic and risking lives, authorities have poured in coppers and built high barbed-wire fences to keep people away from Eurotunnel freight trains, the port and the highway. But desperate 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. But truckers’ groups were cool to the idea of a wall. Richard Burnett, chief executive of Britannia’s Road Haulage Association, said the money "would be much better spent on increasing security along the approach roads." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 We will see, Alan |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-09-08 11:39 |
| #4 Wait, I was told by the Dems and the MSM (but I repeat myself) that walls don't work. Were they wrong? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-09-08 11:11 |
| #3 Better to put charges in the Chunnel and mine the harbors. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-08 10:17 |
| #2 Oops. I want the music industry to support Palestinians' rights and oppose this inhumane barrier |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-08 04:18 |
| #1 Will https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,,1543331,00.htmlpain graffiti on that wall? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-08 04:15 |