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Drivers waited next to their parked trucks on the M20 highway leading to the Channel Tunnel terminal. More than 4,500 vehicles are stuck along the route.
Posted on 08/01/2015 6:39:39 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
LONDON — More than 4,500 vehicles are stuck along one of Britain’s main highways, caught in the chaos over efforts by desperate migrants to make their way through the Channel Tunnel from the French port city of Calais, 31 miles away. Another 4,500 cars and trucks are stuck on the other side of the English Channel.
Food is rotting, drivers are exasperated and commerce is delayed. Would-be vacationers bound for the Continent are furious, and the British news media is on a rampage, with The Daily Mail wondering how migrants could invade Britain when Hitler could not and calling for the army to be deployed.
The British government is in crisis mode, with Prime Minister David Cameron returning from Asia on Friday to lead yet another meeting of the security cabinet.
Under pressure to show that the government is in control, Mr. Cameron emerged on Friday to promise more high-tech security fencing and sniffer dogs for the French and the use of Defense Ministry land in Kent to park some of the waiting trucks, to get them off the highway.
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The migrants, most of them from Libya, Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan, are finding new strategies to exhaust the French police, cut through fencing, stow away on trucks and try to get to Britain through the Channel tunnel. In the nightly game of attack and run, chase and release, traffic through the tunnel has been badly disrupted, and at least nine migrants have died in their attempts since June.
Some estimates are that the mess is costing the British economy 250 million pounds, or about $390 million, a day, while local governments in southern England are struggling to cope with at least a doubling of illegal migrants, who must be housed and fed, especially those who are minors.
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"Must be"????
See; that, right there, is the problem.
Just round them up in France and send them home. Why is this so difficult?
You got it. If really bad things started happening to the "migrants" there would be fewer of them. We need no more mister nice government. Migrants need to be treated as invaders. When they mass rush security barriers, they need to be shot. When they smuggle in, they need to be locked up and put to hard labor to pay for the trouble they cost, etc.
European lefties don’t want them gone. They want as many as possible.
This is one reason why Obama wants Middle East chaos...to drive tens of millions of Mohammedans into the West.
You are correct. This crisis is much to the liking of leftists in the west.
Tell them you are going to smuggle them to England. Let them sneak onto the ship, lock them in the holds, and set sail for Africa. Use fire hoses to help them exit at the destination.
The “New World Order” in all it’s chaotic glory!
Eurabia.
Arrogant Europeans should be welcoming those people .... as Comrade Pope stated “No person can be an illegal immigrant”!
Check out “The Camp of the Saints “- this may only be a dress rehearsal.
Or fill the Chunnel with them, then flood the Chunnel.
Like Mexicans they figure if they make it to England, they win.
I believe you are correct. Jean Raspail is proving to be a prophet, and at 90 has lived to see his European nightmare come to life.
And nobody, least of all in France pays any attention to him.
trumped
If Whitey is the problem and white privilege is keeping minorities down, why do these illegals always flee to white majority societies? I thought diversity was strength and these illegals formed great cultures before whites came on the scene, why are all their countries hell holes they flee from? (rhetorical question overload)
Round them up and send them home is the correct answer. Use tired old cargo vessels feed them on rice beans and water. They are parasites
The very definition of "peasant" is a man who does not care how many are poor, as long as no one is rich.
White societies abolished peasantry so long ago they have forgotten how it works.
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