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PARIS (Reuters) – Britain should take in all children living in the crowded “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais who have family links to the UK, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. “I solemnly ask Britain to live up

Jean-Jacques Lacoste is suing residents of the town he once served as mayor for “incitement to racial hatred” after spotting posters complaining that the resettlement of migrants squatting in Calais to the commune will bring crime and antisocial behaviour. The

Britain should accept hundreds of migrant children from the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp while continuing to fund £87 million worth of security measures around the port, the French President has said. Speaking after making a pledge to close the camp by

President Francois Hollande said on Monday that France will completely shut down “the Jungle” migrant camp in Calais and called on London to help deal with the plight of thousands of people whose dream is ultimately to get to Britain.

Activists in the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais have been accused of “sex tourism” and sexually exploiting migrants, including children, with many attempting to justify the relationships as “normal”.

Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested he will force Britain to open a migrant centre to process asylum claims from migrants if he is re-elected French President next year. Speaking during a visit to the town of Calais – which has become

This week the UK began construction on a “great wall” near its most porous border in Calais, France, to keep illegal migrants out.

(AFP) – The squalid migrant camp known as the “Jungle” in France’s northern port of Calais has become home to nearly 1,000 more people since August, bringing the total to more than 10,000, two charities working there said Monday. “The

At a meeting Wednesday night, residents of Saint-Denis-de-Cabanne reacted angrily to news that migrants are to be housed in a waterfront castle that serves the French town as a holiday centre.

(AFP) – Plans to create new migrant centres across France notably to house thousands moved from Calais’ notorious Jungle camp were condemned by right-wing critics on Tuesday as “irresponsible” and at risk of sparking a “civil war”. The Socialist-led government

France is facing a new immigration headache as migrants set up home in the infamous Calais ‘jungle’ camp with no intention of moving.

Members of Stand up to Racism and Trade Unionists for Calais gathered outside the French Embassy in London last night, to protest “in solidarity” with the migrants at Calais, following announcements that The Jungle migrant camp is to be dismantled.

Just two months after voting leave the globalist European Union, the UK has announced the construction of a “great wall” near its most porous border in Calais, to keep illegal migrants out.

Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to “go to London the day after the [French] presidential election” to renegotiate an agreement allowing UK border checks to be enforced in France. The former president, who is running to regain his country’s highest office,

Truckers, dock workers, farmers and residents of Calais have shut down main roads into the port town in Northern France, promising to continue the blockade until the French government begins to dismantle the illegal ‘Jungle’ migrant camp. Police recently declared large

(REUTERS) – British and French interior ministers agreed on Tuesday to develop cooperation “now and when the United Kingdom leaves the EU” to address challenges posed by flows of migrants to the European Union.

More than 27,000 people have been arrested for illegally entering Britain in the last three years alone, new figures obtained from police departments have revealed.

Just months after it was reported that the majority of the illegal Calais migrant camp had been cleared, its population is back at 10,000, violence has peaked, and police have declared the area a “no-go zone”.

A team of BBC journalists has filmed a shocking attack on a lorry in Calais, with armed migrants blocking a major road with a log and ambushing the vehicle.

Footage has emerged of migrants near Calais ambushing a truck driver as he makes for the port on his way to the UK. The latest of several similar incidents in the area which have seen migrants weilding a range of

A migrant was killed and several injured in clashes between Afghan and Sudanese migrants near the Calais “jungle” camp last night. The brawl took place between the migrant campsite and the A16 where every night migrants attempt to break into cars

French authorities have revealed a “spectacular” rise in the number of migrants living in Calais as the wait to illegally enter the UK, increasing by 53 per cent in just two months.

The situation at the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp has become “uncontrollable” as police numbers drop and migrant numbers rise, the town’s mayor has said. Natacha Bouchart said that migrant numbers at the camps around Calais had reached a record 9,000 and

Professional musicians have recorded an album with migrants from the Calais Jungle. The musician behind the project hopes the album will show a “different side” to the migrants.

A truck driver passing through Calais has been threatened by an illegal immigrant wielding a chainsaw, during a night of violence which also saw a lorry set on fire and cab windows smashed.

An African migrant planning to enter Britain illegally was killed in a gang fight that broke out between 200 Africans and Afghans in the Calais Jungle migrant camp, adding to the toll of violence and destruction at the besieged French seaside town.

Taxpayers are forking out for the man who walked to Britain through the Channel Tunnel to live in a £100,000 property. Not only are the public having to foot the illegal migrant’s £700-a-month housing benefit bill, but Abdul Haroun can

Former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé has urged the European Union (EU) not to punish the UK in ‘Brexit’ talks, and suggested freedom of movement across the bloc should be “up for negotiation”. The Presidential hopeful said he wanted a

The French government has slapped down suggestions that, after Brexit, they will scrap a deal with the UK placing border checks in France and insuring illegal migrants are not waved across the English Channel. Under a bilateral treaty signed in

Thousands of illegal migrants in Calais have blocked roads, rioted and attacked vehicles in coordinated attempts to break into the UK en masse. Ferries were disrupted and police were forced to temporarily close some roads last night, with the attacks

Around 250 vehicles have left London on a “Convoy To Calais” to deliver aid and indulge in poverty tourism, despite French police calling for the procession be to be banned.

Around 40 migrants living in the “Jungle” camp in Calais have been injured, as hundreds of men from different ethnic groups fought with guns, batons and knives. Local officials confirmed the brawl between roughly 200 Afghans and Sudanese in the

Police in Calais fear that by the summer they may be overstretched and will not be able to keep control of migrants trying to get the the UK. In the Northern French port town of Calais, police are worried that

Two Iranian illegal migrants have successful made it across the English Channel from France, after being brought ashore by lifeguards in Kent. The men were well prepared for the journey, with life jackets, water and mobiles phones on board. They

Illegal migrants camped in Calais, France, are attempting to enter Britain by sailing makeshift rafts across the English Channel, as they become increasingly desperate after the ‘Jungle’ was finally dismantled. The reports come from the French Coastguard, which claims to have seen

Activists on the No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity Facebook page have been discussing how Tuesday’s bombing in Brussels was a “good thing,” as the chaos it caused will have enabled illegal immigrants to cross into the UK. One activist