How about rounding them up and throwing them the hell out of the country. They’re basically already rounded up.
Stop trying to shove them into uk. Send them home now. Problem solved.
NIMBY played at the international level.
OK, cede Calais to the UK and let the Brits take care of it. They owned the place from 1347 until 1558 and this sort of problem never happened when they were in charge.
They need someone with testicular fortitude to deport the migrants.
The purpose for checking on the French side was probably in part to make sure the Chunnel was protected from the greater potential spectrum of threats that might come from the continent, what with its open borders.
I would consider it likely that these were consolidated on the French end both ways as a cost savings measure.
If that was the case the Brits should take a stand on the basis of continued Chunnel security and offer to cooperate with checks at BOTH ends, where inbound, and make this a cooperative measure at both ends (iow: neither is relying fully on the other yet neither loses face).
And they should further also announce a cessation of ANY refugee traffic of any sort via the Chunnel route. The Chunnel is ONLY for daily, normal traffic and no other. Then the Camp awaiting transit to England near Calais has no compelling reason to exist there (the old ferry services having long since ceased for the most part) and the French gain a needed pretext to clean the concentrated nest out and break it up, sending its denizens elsewhere where they will lack numbers presently held.
Send them to Sealand, that’s about halfway between the UK and Calais. Let them rot there.
French looking for somebody else to do the heavy lifting again.
And France used to be England’s ally.
It would be so simple to just announce there are ZERO handouts for any immigrants. If you stop giving them free stuff, they’ll stop coming.