Posted on 09/23/2016 10:38:33 AM PDT by Lorianne
Construction has begun on a four-metre high concrete barrier aimed at stopping migrants targeting vehicles around Calais.
The barrier - dubbed The Great Wall Of Calais - will run for nearly a mile along the main motorway to Calais and is being paid for by British taxpayers.
The wall is being built within a few hundred metres of the so-called 'Jungle' migrant camp, which is now thought to house more than 10,000 people.
It has been reported that it will cost £1.9m to build, and it is intended to add another layer of protection against attempts to stow away on vehicles as they approach the port heading for Britain.
It is due to be completed by the end of the year, replacing the wire fences that are already there.
Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill unveiled the plan to build a "big new wall" earlier this month.
But the Road Haulage Association attacked the idea, saying it would be a poor use of taxpayers' money.
Some migrants try to get vehicles to slow down on the motorway, by creating makeshift roadblocks, and climb aboard in an attempt to reach the UK by ferry or Eurotunnel services.
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You mean they didn’t have to debate whether walls work for thirty years like they do here?
Hmm...the only problem with this is that what human ingenuity can construct, human ingenuity can circumvent. Well, we shall see.
Apparently Obama thinks walls work as he gave billions to Mexico to build one on its southern border.
Walls and fences seem to work everywhere but the US.
This is simple. Start with razor wire then a layer of antipersonnel mines then the 4 meter wall with periodic guard towers housing machine guns with interlocking zones of fire.
Easy, peazy.
How about just rounding up the invaders (oh, wait, they are already in one place) and deporting them back to North African shores. That would be a lot cheaper and solve the long term problem as well.
Round ‘em up, move ‘em out...rawhide!
Yes, but people were continually trying to breach it. Many succeeded and many more died doing it.
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