Posted on 09/07/2014 1:01:50 AM PDT by nickcarraway
SOLDIERS are on standby to patrol northern French ports amid growing tensions about an army of migrants intent on reaching Britain.
In Calais alone about 100 migrants are arriving every day. Other towns are also reporting high numbers. Most new arrivals are desperate Africans who have travelled from Italy, where they arrive in boats from war-ravaged Libya.
Last year almost 8,000 arrived there. This year 100,000 have landed, with most saying Britain is their final destination.
Today the Sunday Express can reveal that the huge trade in moving migrants out of Africa and into Britain is worth £5billion a year to people smugglers, who are arming them with knives, guns and other weapons to fight French riot police.
Former Tory home secretary Michael Howard yesterday urged the French to “get their act together”.
And Dover’s mayor Pamela Brivio called on her counterpart in Calais, the outspoken Natacha Bouchart, to get tough with people smugglers.
She said: “These migrants are taken to Calais by unscrupulous people where hundreds are living rough and we have to get to the root of how they are getting there. Who is dropping them off?
“MEPs should be doing more to address this. We have got to have a united approach on how we deal with this problem.”
Today tensions in Calais will reach new heights as fed-up townsfolk and Right-wing agitators take to the streets in protest at the 2,000 migrants who have cast a shadow of fear over the port. Police have changed the route of the march to try to avoid clashes with migrants but CRS riot police are expecting violence.
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Certainly the situation in Calais is worrying and the Ministry of the Interior is watching events closely A French government official Extra officers have been sent to Calais but government sources in Paris say they are struggling to maintain order and so soldiers are being put on standby.
A French government official told the Sunday Express: “In the event of the situation becoming untenable or the safety of the people of Calais being compromised, it is the duty of the soldiers of the French republic to protect French citizens whether they be in France or on foreign soil.
“Certainly the situation in Calais is worrying and the Ministry of the Interior is watching events closely.”
Lord Howard of Lympne said he had “some sympathy” with Madame Bouchart who wants the border moved to Dover so migrants can legally travel across the Channel.
However, he added: “Every member state of the European Union has subscribed to the principle that refugees fleeing persecution should apply for asylum in the first safe country they reach. France used to take this very seriously.”
He said the root of the problem was that France had “lost control of its borders” after signing up to the Schengen agreement that “dismantled” travel restrictions between member countries.
He added that the previous French administration under president Nicolas Sarkozy had recognised that and threatened to withdraw from Schengen, which the UK never signed up to.
Lord Howard said: “The mayor of Calais ought to be directing her frustration at President Francois Hollande and getting him to take that kind of action.
“We have control of our borders. The countries of the Schengen agreement ought to do the same and get their act together to deal with this problem.”
Related articles Motorists travelling through Calais warned to 'be vigilant' after stowaway sneaks into car French should do more to tackle Calais immigrants Michael Howard says France needs to 'get its act together' over Calais migrants Philippe Mignonet, deputy mayor of Calais, said: “We are suffering as direct victims of people-smuggling mafia gangs who are ferrying these people across Africa up to Italy, France and Calais.
“These people are in the smuggling business because there are vast profits to be made.”
He added: “The Italian home office minister said months ago that their island of Lampedusa is the main illegal immigration entrance point of the EU. The main exit point is Calais.”
Eritrean migrant Adhanom Ghabrai, 28, said: “I have been in Calais for 60 days and I have tried to make the crossing on 40 of those days. Every time I was stopped by police.”
Fellow countryman Amanil Tekle, 25, who was put on a boat to Italy, said: “We were treated like cattle. The Arab drivers even tried to have the women.”
Investigations by the Sunday Express reveal that migrants are gathering in other coastal towns and communities in northern France from where they will mount attempts to cross into Britain.
Some sleep in wooden huts erected by charity groups, others stay in tents. Some are even put up in hotels and youth hostels.
The Warsaw-based Frontex immigration agency says that 140,000 migrants fled to Europe in 2011. This year that figure was equalled by the middle of last month.
The respected UN High Commissioner for Refugees said that by July Italy had received 64,000 people.
The other main routes are from north Africa to Spain or Portugal and through the western Balkans.
A classic case of Locking the tent after the camels have moved in. France is a lost cause
This requires tactics that the EU is not prepared to use. If they don’t, they will be overwhelmed and Europe will turn into Africa.
Who elects idiots like this?
However, he added: “Every ¬member state of the European Union has subscribed to the principle that refugees fleeing persecution should apply for asylum in the first safe country they reach. France used to take this very ¬seriously.”
He said the root of the problem was that France had “lost ¬control of its borders” after signing up to the Schengen agreement that ¬“dismantled” travel restrictions between member countries.
Wow; how would have guessed that by opening your country to all of the people of the world fleeing persecution you would lose control of your borders? Especially if you have very generous social welfare systems.
Nobody would ever foresee such a thing. NO NEVER.
This was all foretold in the novel “Camp of The Saints” 40 years ago. Exactly what is happening. And the French author was branded a racist for stating it. Read it and weep. It’s original subtitle was “the end of the white world”, how fitting given it’s underlying cause was liberalism/socialism/white guilt and spinelessness when being invaded by third world hordes. What’s the saying, civilizations don’t end with a bang, but with a whimper? Tragic.
The word has gone out that the UK has a generous welfare benefits including some pricey free housing for illegal aliens.
‘fed-up townsfolk and Right-wing agitators’
I see that France is having problems with those pesky tea-baggers also.
“Wow; how would have guessed that by opening your country to all of the people of the world fleeing persecution you would lose control of your borders? Especially if you have very generous social welfare systems.”
I also has the effect of diminishing the amount of people who should be staying and fighting for their own country - letting people run from a fight rather than turn and make something good out of their country means that these countries will never have revolutions that will provide them with the sort of country they want to run to!
I may be giving them too much credit but I also tend to think that this is part of a greater Islamic plan to create tensions and drive their own into other countries with the intention of taking over in future generations.
France is under 10% Muslim, and many of them can lawfully be deported (a big job but not impossible). It's not a lost cause. They have turned the invasion into a bigger problem than it had to be, but they have not lost. Yet. It's counterproductive to argue that the situation is hopeless, when that argument encourages inaction or retreat.
The democrats and Obama would love to see them all detoured to the US. New voters....
We are all getting more than our fair share!
Invasion of Britain - looks like ISLAM is doing some island hopping...
Someone in the British parliament is thinking that allowing Arab immigrants into Britain was a bad idea about now!
Of course - no one in the US Congress is thinking that allowing both Latino and moslem immigrates into the US is a bad idea - which is a great concern to me!
Right straight out of the novel Camp of the Saints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
Well, hell froze over and the Bills will win the Super Bowl.......france is going to attempt to stop an invasion.
“Most new arrivals are desperate Africans who have traveled from Italy, where they arrive in boats from war-ravaged Libya”
How many are originally from the countries of “Ebolaland”?
I spent several weeks traveling around Europe and encountered many of the immigrant Africans. It was to stop and talk with them, often having a drink together. They traveled in groups or gangs more often than individually, thus I had to be careful.
They almost all claim to be from Morocco as they came to Europe from Africa by crossing the Straight of Gibraltar between Morocco and Spain. Doesn’t matter what country they originated, they all say the same thing. They also mentioned that the EU is on good terms with Morocco so they get treated better by claiming to be from there.
I was sitting in the central square in Barcelona one evening when I overheard one young man ask another, “Why do you want to kill Americans?” Made me a bit nervous until I realized that I had my Canadian cap on!
Europe has a big problem in that many of the immigrants are potential terrorists, even in the rural areas and small towns. I found this to be true in Belgium, France, Spain, and Italy, but not Germany. The German immigrants were more from the Baltic States and former USSR countries.
It was a real eye opener to see the powder keg forming.
“Who elects idiots like this?”
The same people that find great meaning in naval lint.
pesky tea-baggers
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I hope you realize that “tea-bagger” is a very gross slang term that the leftist media decided to use to deride those of us who are Tea Party types. (The things I learn on FR.)
Haha...Europe gets the Africans and the U.S. gets Mexico, Central and South America...The NWO has a real plan going for it...
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