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Calais goes UP IN FLAMES: Migrants fight to get into UK as ferry workers block harbour
Express ^ | Jul 31, 2015 | MARK REYNOLDS, ROB VIRTUE

Posted on 07/31/2015 8:51:58 PM PDT by george76

FLAMES filled the air in Calais after striking French ferry workers blocked roads with burning tyres leaving the port now resembling a WARZONE.

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Fires, which are currently blocking access to the harbour, have plunged the crisis zone into further chaos.

It comes after Britain's borders faced more disruption last night as hundreds of migrants including children stormed the Eurotunnel.

David Cameron has said Britain is threatened by a “swarm” of foreigners and the migrant crisis in Calais was likened to a “warzone.”

Migrants were pictured clinging to a lorry as they left the port of Dover, while others in Calais were seen clambering over fences with children in tow.

More than 4,000 increasingly aggressive and desperate migrants largely from war-torn failed African states have stormed through fences in a bid to clamber aboard trains to ‘El Dorado’ UK

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Eurotunnel earlier revealed that since the beginning of the year it has blocked 37,000 migrants trying to make their way to Britain and that in the last month nine people have died trying to cross the Channel.

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The Road Haulage Association (RHA) warned that the lives of lorry drivers were now in danger because French police were simply no longer able to cope.

The RHA’s chief executive, Richard Burnett, said: “It has become clear that the French authorities in Calais simply cannot cope. This has become an untenable situation and is obviously now beyond the capabilities of the French police. The RHA strongly repeats its request, made in June, for deployment of the French military to contain, segregate and control the migrant threat.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; britain; calais; calaismigrants; campofthesaints; europe; eurotunnel; migrants
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To: LouAvul
He is why Obama got elected...

I can't argue with that. In fact, I can't see how anyone can argue with that.

41 posted on 07/31/2015 10:06:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: LouAvul

...”Third world is storming the UK.... Third world is storming the US.... This is not unrelated....Deceptive social architects are orchestrating it.”......

You are soooo VERY correct!....stunningly there’s not a whole lot of Political resistance from most politicians....just talk about how to control those coming in, ‘NOT stopping’ the inflow.


42 posted on 07/31/2015 10:12:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: LouAvul; Leaning Right

Simply remarkable Bush bashing here -
Thought that this thread was about illegal immigration occurring on the other side of the Atlantic.
I did not know Dubya could be so potent as latently disrupt Africa and create an illegal immigration crisis 7 years after he left office.

For some people, it’s always Bush’s fault.
Truth be told, Bill Clinton was the one who really opened illegal immigrant flood gates in a last term effort to create massive amounts of new Democrat voters.
Don’t like today’s corruption?
Clinton and the democrats were it’s demon seed.
Not Dubya.


43 posted on 07/31/2015 10:13:10 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Clintons and Bushes are two sides of the same coin.


44 posted on 07/31/2015 10:22:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: LouAvul

One other thing...

These are mostly 20 something and younger single males coming in from African etc. nations, MEast as well as S.America......An interesting thought ...if you wanted to go into these nations for resources but the violent conflicts just go on and on year after year , what better way to stop the conflicts without shedding blood then to stop the young from being recruited to those forces by leaving a door of escape wide open..... If they can’t fill the ranks of those dying they soon enough will have no armed forces to fight their conflicts.....if there’s no conflicts then that’s a straight shot to the resources.


45 posted on 07/31/2015 10:22:57 PM PDT by caww
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Bill Clinton was the one who really opened illegal immigrant flood gates in a last term effort to create massive amounts of new Democrat voters.

No doubt about that. But George Bush had eight years - eight full years! - to correct the situation. And what did he do about it? Well, nothing.

Now let's move on to the international scene. Bush set the Middle East on fire. He had the best of intentions, but look what happened. Had Bush not invaded Iraq, Iraq, Syria, and Libya will most probably all be peaceful places. Under brutal dictatorships, to be sure, but peaceful places. No civil wars, no streams of refugees to the West, etc.

I can't give Bush a pass just because he's a nice guy. IMHO, we absolutely must acknowledge, and learn, from his mistakes.

46 posted on 07/31/2015 10:23:44 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

...and for some people he isn’t even responsible for the things he actually said and did.

“Islam is a religion of peace”

“Jobs Americans won’t do”

“Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande”

and of course:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/01/08/bush-amnesty-plan-raises-immigration-concerns.html

Bush Amnesty Plan Raises Immigration Concerns
Published January 08, 2004 FoxNews.com

The massive new immigration initiative unveiled by the White House has Democrats and ethnic identity organizations accusing Republicans of election-year pandering, and has the Republican base wondering whether George W. Bush and the Republican Party has sold them out.

The initiative, which draws heavily on legislation already introduced in Congress by three Arizona Republicans, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Flake and Rep. Jim Kolbe, has two central components. It would provide a mechanism by which some U.S. businesses would be able to import an unlimited number of low-wage foreign workers, and it would allow most of the roughly 10 million illegal aliens already in the United States a means by which they (and their extended families) would be able to remain legally — and permanently — in the United States.


47 posted on 07/31/2015 10:25:00 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: caww
These are mostly 20 something and younger single males coming in from African etc....

Permit me to add something to your comments. When it comes to most immigrants (from Italy to the US, for example), the children are more willing to assimilate than their parents.

But that is not true when it comes to islamists! The younger ones are usually more radical than the older ones. This is a serious problem, and one that governments are choosing to ignore, at their great peril.

48 posted on 07/31/2015 10:29:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right; MarchonDC09122009
No doubt about that. But George Bush had eight years - eight full years! - to correct the situation. And what did he do about it? Well, nothing.

Less than nothing, actually.

It's true that Clinton pushed through thousands of legal immigrants in the last year of his term, trying to create new voters for Algore. Remember the stadia that were used for swearing-in ceremonies?

However, Clinton was less responsible for the invasion of illegal aliens than was Bush. For example, when it came to prosecuting employers for hiring illegal aliens...

Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.

In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies. In 2004, it issued fine notices to three.
Washington Post
June 19, 2006

All told, the Clinton administration conducted several thousand prosecutions for employing illegal aliens over its eight years. I don't think the Bush administration managed even a hundred.

49 posted on 07/31/2015 10:52:32 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Leaning Right

Yes the younger ones are more radical.... which is why there are violent fights between the various religious sects, they bring their conflicts ‘from’ their third world country to which ever Western country they end up in.

This is also true of the ‘refugees’ the UN is relocating from ME and African zones of wars and conflicts....the fighting begins as soon as they arrive at the camps and carries on in the resettlement areas of the host country. of which the United States is.

We are not only going to have issues among Americans accepting the illegals and refugees...but wait til they organize themselves here and begin their wars here....all in good time as I see it. Just look at the gigantic street protests across the country when any of our politicians attempt at reforming or making rules regarding Mexicans......you can guess what it will look like when the Muslims of so many third world countries take to the streets here. Our government will indeed give them benefits just to keep that from happening...just like we do the black population.


50 posted on 07/31/2015 10:53:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: Secret Agent Man
These people have no moral claims to live in foreign countries. None.

Perhaps room can be found for them in the Vatican.

51 posted on 07/31/2015 10:53:23 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

Or Pelosi or Rubio’s houses.


52 posted on 07/31/2015 10:57:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: wjcsux

Ever hear The Kinks do “Louie Louie?” Fun


53 posted on 07/31/2015 11:01:12 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Moonman62

“Send them to Vatican City.”

How about Greenland?


54 posted on 07/31/2015 11:08:38 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: dfwgator

“Clintons and Bushes are two sides of the same coin.”

I agree.
I also agree with the facts posted detailing Dubya’s negligence in safeguarding the border, prosecuting employers who hire illegals, placating islam, and stirring up a scorpions nest in the middle east.
From a performance standpoint, Dubya and his fellow Republicans were more than a disappointmemt, far from ideal.

However, with Obola, we’ve got a Big eff’ing mess and threat here and now.
Let’s do something constructive, accurate and parsed for defining what we Don’t want, and want in future presidents.
Create a matrix table listing presidents from Reagan to present, with major performance objective categories and final results for each four year term, ie: illegal immigration numbers and offending employer prosecutions, Nat’l debt, trade deficit, Real unemployment rate / non participating in workforce, Real inflation, foreign policy results, EBT, social security disability, etc.

We’ll see bad trends from Clinton and Dubya. But one thing for sure, Obola’s performance results will cause alarm.

The only candidate who I think is principled enough to be president is: Ted Cruz, with maybe Walker as his running mate.


55 posted on 07/31/2015 11:28:47 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Leaning Right

“I respect George Bush. He had the best of intentions, no doubt. But he lit the fire.”

You gotta be kidding us. In your eyes, it’s as if 9/11 never happened, and Bush went pyro on us just for fun.

You seem more upset with him than soros, who is the mastermind behind the current state of the world, and who will profit the most from the chaos. He was hellbent on destroying Bush.

Do you work for soros?


56 posted on 07/31/2015 11:44:18 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: LouAvul; Admin Moderator

You are a troll and should be banned. Stormfront, maybe?!


57 posted on 08/01/2015 12:01:34 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Leaning Right
"No doubt about that. But George Bush had eight years - eight full years! - to correct the situation. And what did he do about it? Well, nothing."

Nothing? Bush built over 700 new miles of border fence.

You are making ignorant comments, not based on facts, and going off on *Bush* while 0bama is in Office doing real damage.

Ignorant.

Put your eyes on the current problem, soldier. Shape up.

58 posted on 08/01/2015 12:04:35 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Leaning Right

President Bush signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of Illegal Aliens

S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003.

It extendeded the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot program created in 1996, expanding it from the original five states to all 50 states.


59 posted on 08/01/2015 12:12:37 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: LouAvul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Fence_Act_of_2006

Bush's Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorized this construction of 700 additional miles of the double chain link and barbed wire fences with light and infrared camera poles.

60 posted on 08/01/2015 12:17:20 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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