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Retweeted Instapundit.com (@instapundit):
GOOD FENCES: UK to build ‘big new wall’ in Calais to stop
migrants.
The four-meter (13 foot)... https://t.co/RfnxrsYoIF via @instapundit
The four-meter (13 foot)... https://t.co/RfnxrsYoIF via @instapundit
The
four-meter (13 foot) high wall is part of a £17 million ($23 million) deal
struck between Britain and France earlier this year to try to block migrants
from crossing the English Channel.
“We’ve
done the fence. Now we’re doing a wall,” British Immigration Minister Robert
Goodwill announced at a government hearing on Tuesday.
It is
the latest attempt to enhance border security in Calais, home to a
controversial makeshift camp known as “The Jungle,” where thousands of
displaced people live in squalid conditions.
The
camp is notorious for being a major transit point for migrants, who often hop
onto the back of UK-bound cargo trucks in the hopes of entering the country
illegally. Many in “The Jungle” are reluctant to register as refugees in France
because their preferred destination is Britain.
When the Chunnel was under
construction, I was only half-kidding when I asked Brits how many explosives
they had rigged on their side of it.
