Posted on 01/14/2019 3:41:16 AM PST by reaganaut1
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France — There is disquiet along the cold, foggy quays of this major French fishing port facing Britain.
Captain after captain, returning to Boulogne-sur-Mer in squat fishing boats with the day’s haul of crab and sole, has the same story: Their boats are being broken into.
The suspected culprits, according to the fishermen and local officials? Smugglers, and their migrant clients, who are intent on reaching Britain and are looking for vessels to cross the forbidding waters of the English Channel. A few of the stolen boats have even been taken to sea.
Since the start of Europe’s migration crisis in 2015, the English Channel has largely been seen as an unbreachable barrier, its shifting currents and volatile weather making any attempt to cross too dangerous.
But officials in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France’s largest fishing port, reported a surge of these migrant crossings in the last three months of 2018, whether in a stolen fishing boat or, far more frequently, in small inflatable craft that set off in the dark from the miles of beaches lining the French coast.
“This is something completely new for us,” said Marc Bonnafous, who oversees the government’s search and rescue operation in the channel waters from the lighthouse high above the sea here at Cap Gris-Nez, up the coast from Boulogne. “And it has absolutely exploded.”
Last year, around 500 migrants — 10 times as many as in 2017 — attempted the voyage across the channel, a trip of about 20 miles at its narrowest point. More than half made it across.
The relatively small numbers notwithstanding, the crossings have set off large concerns in Britain, with headlines and anti-immigration politicians calling it a crisis.
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Regardless of what they are called in France, once they reach the UK they are “Asians” ...
The parasites will “be” whatever it takes to feed off the backs of hard-working citizens.
lol
C’est la vie.
Should fix a lot of issues...
Oh those poor poor “migrants” Trying so hard to get into the British welfare system. Too bad we don’t have the equivalent of the English channel on the southern border
We got two oceans which is better than nothing.
But about the southern border: Democrats are nearing the edge of high treason; we see massed invaders flying their own flags, Democrats see new Democrat voters. That’s subversion, sedition, & treason combined.
The culture war is moving toward civil war. Watch for House Demoncrats to go full whackadoodle on confiscation. Won’t pass but will make their evil intent clearer than ever.
That is their ultimate goal and has been for as long as I can remember. After all once the populace is disarmed there isn't any limit on what can be done to them.
No, what they are pushing for is to give the illegal immigrants the right to vote. First they are trying it in “local” elections. Then they will push it for state and eventually federal.
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