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Calais migrants face opposition at new, small-town destinations
Wasington Post ^ | October 29 at 2:03 PM | James McAuley

Posted on 10/29/2016 1:25:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Required...to welcome 87 migrants evicted from the sprawling Calais “Jungle” this week, this rustic hilltop community of ancient stone houses and 1,800 people erupted in outrage. Before the migrants even arrived, protesters had scrawled graffiti on its scenic streets, and the mayor had already submitted his resignation in the name of liberty.

As authorities sent more than 6,000 migrants from Calais to more than 400 “welcome centers” throughout France, small, quiet towns like Saint-Bauzille-de-Putois have found themselves thrust onto the front lines of Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis. But in these environments, the flash point becomes intensely intimate...

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Across France, some communities have welcomed the newcomers...Others have not...

Sometimes, that exclusion has taken the form of a vote, as in Forges-les-Bains, where 61 percent of residents rejected welcoming migrants last month. But mostly it has come in the form of violence, as in the welcome centers set on fire in Loubeyrat this week and in Arrès earlier this summer....

There has been no fire in Saint-Bauzille-de-Putois, but there has been no welcome, either. The town successfully demanded that the government reduce the number of incoming Calais migrants from 87 to 44. Early Thursday morning, 43 arrived — mostly single men, and mostly from Sudan.

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On Thursday afternoon, the day of their arrival, pairs of Sudanese migrants from the Jungle wandered down the country road from the welcome center into town. One young man from the Darfur region of Sudan, who would identify himself only as David, said that Saint-Bauzille had not been where he wanted to go. Like thousands of others from Calais, he still hopes to make it to Britain, he said.

“We don’t know anything about what’s going on, anything about it at all,” he said, gesturing to the town. “We just want our cigarettes.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: calais; france

1 posted on 10/29/2016 1:25:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

The government of France is acting the part of a fleet of hundreds of gliders during WWII, dropping thousands of foreign invaders deep into the undefended interior of the country they are supposed to be protecting.


2 posted on 10/29/2016 1:27:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: Steely Tom

Why doesn’t anyone want to fire the first shot?

Seems counter productive.


3 posted on 10/29/2016 1:29:39 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: BenLurkin

Calais - why wouldn't everyone want this?

4 posted on 10/29/2016 1:30:08 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BenLurkin

Nobody wants them, especially not their home countries where they are most likely long term unemployed. Add low skills to violent behavior, and sexually assaultive adults pretending to be innocent school children they are wanted even less.
I suspect the EU will not last many more years unless they reform the demands they are making on unenthusiastic host countries.


5 posted on 10/29/2016 1:32:59 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

Too bad they don’t face small arms fire.


6 posted on 10/29/2016 1:46:22 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: mrmeyer

If things become sufficiently chaotic in France, I expect these Muslim invaders will be hunted down like the animals they are.


7 posted on 10/29/2016 1:47:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

They’re trying to infiltrate by having them planted EVERYWHERE across the country, so that EVERY community is infested with them and has to fight them, there are no strongholds of non-muslims.

Good for those who are standing their ground and refusing to commit social suicide.


8 posted on 10/29/2016 1:55:47 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: BenLurkin

If they hadn’t closed it down, the British would have closed the Chunnel. A real Brexit.


9 posted on 10/29/2016 2:52:38 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: BenLurkin

Bye, bye, france. We really don’t want to save your butts again.


10 posted on 10/29/2016 2:53:44 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: BenLurkin

So... The very same people who turn their home countries in to violent third world dumps, turn their host country (host as in parasite) in to a third world violent dump, aren’t wanted in neighborhoods so they can turn them in to yet another third world violent dump???

THAT’S RACIST!


11 posted on 10/29/2016 3:20:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: hal ogen

We might not want to, but most likely we won’t be able to because we will be too busy protecting our own butts.


12 posted on 10/29/2016 7:33:34 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (How did we get here?)
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