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Deputy Calais Mayor Jean-Marc Puissesseau has dismantled scare stories that the UK will have to reroute freight or that there will be massive delays at the French port in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The British government is going to wargame the impact of leaving the European Union on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on Monday, chartering dozens of articulated lorries to simulate the impact of traffic near the port of Dover.

Forty migrants were picked up in the English Channel in five separate incidents on Christmas day, believed to be the highest number of illegals and boats intercepted in one day. The first vessel was spotted at 2:40am local time after

An MP has said the surge in “brazen” migrant boats crossing from France is “unprecedented,” as thirteen more people were rescued this weekend after attempting to cross the English Channel in inflatable boats.

The chief of police in the Flemish municipality of Kruibeke has questioned why he should keep migrants from travelling to the UK when they do not want to remain in Belgium.

French officials have slapped down British claims France will frustrate and “slow” trade passing through Calais in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.

The United Kingdom’s open border with the Republic of Ireland, which EU loyalists claim is so important that Brexit should be derailed if it cannot be maintained, is being used as a ‘back door’ for illegal migrants. 

Singer and pro-mass migration campaigner Lily Allen has said she does not have enough space in her luxury London flat to take in any asylum seekers despite earlier promises.

Around two-thirds of “child refugees” who were questioned about their age in the UK were revealed to be adults, a government report has found.

Fewer than one bogus asylum seeker in ten arriving in the UK from the EU is transferred back, thanks to “completely useless” Brussels rules.

Contents: Migrants in Calais France hospitalized after violent clashes; Calais becomes difficult choke point in Brexit negotiations

Over a hundred migrants in Calais took part in a series of violent attacks this week leading to several hospitalised from gunshot wounds as Belgian truck companies warn drivers to avoid motorways around the city.

The Road Haulage Association has it on “very good authority” that the French are not using the expensive heartbeat monitors UK taxpayers funded to detect illegal migrants travelling from Calais.

The BBC has deleted a social media post describing an Iraqi asylum seeker accused of terror offenses as a “Surrey teenager.”

Contents: Britain and France renew 1904 Entente Cordiale with new military agreement; Britain will pay £44.5 million to renew the Le Touquet migration agreement

Theresa May is set to give in to demands to pay France to secure its borders, and to take more ‘chid’ migrants from Calais.

Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron vows no more Jungle refugee camps in Calais; Macron demands more money from Britain and to renegotiate the Le Touquet Agreement

Emmanuel Macron has blasted “deceitful” open borders NGOs that have claimed police at Calais are ‘gassing’ sleeping refugee children and tell migrants lies about asylum in Britain.

French officials have revealed there were more than 100,000 attempts on Britain’s border last year from Calais, where violence has risen along with the number of illegal immigrants returning to the port town since the ‘Jungle’ camp was cleared.

Emmanuel Macron will demand the UK gives more money toward policing migrants and takes more in from Calais by threatening to withdraw France’s support for a post-Brexit trade deal.

An Afghan migrant was found dead by the side of the road in Calais in an apparent hit and run as investigators search for a potential suspect in the case. The man, who has not been able to be identified or his age

French police have disrupted an Iraqi gang suspected of trafficking around 40 migrants a day to Calais and into Britain, with three arrests made and vehicles seized.

The UK will give more taxpayers’ money to France to stop a wave of migrants following a surge in attempted illegal crossings, according to French officials.

The small French town of Ouistreham in Normandy is struggling to cope with an influx of illegal migrants looking for a new launch pad to Britain now security has tightened around Calais.

Illegal migrants are attempting to reach the UK by breaking into lorries leaving from a port in Normandy as security around Calais continues to be tightened.

A Dutch logistics firm has said they will stop making deliveries to the UK because of the risk of attack by migrants and asylum seekers as trucks pass through Calais.

Kent Police have arrested an 18-year-old man following the Parsons Green terror bombing in London yesterday. The suspect was found in the port area of Dover – a popular destination for Islamist fighters, people-traffickers and illegal migrants travelling to and from Calais, France.

A former Roman Catholic monastery in the town of Troisvaux in Nothern France has been transformed into an asylum centre as the number of migrants in Calais starts to rise once again.

Hundreds of illegal migrants hoping to sneak into the United Kingdom have transformed a park in the European Union’s capital into another ‘Jungle’, according to reports.

Illegal migrants made more than 56,000 attempts to breach Britain’s borders from French ports and terminals in 2016

Contents: Afghan and Eritrean migrants clash at site of ‘Jungle’ in Calais France; Authorities fear that a new ‘Jungle’ is forming in Calais France

PARIS (AP) — As many as 200 migrants clashed near the northern French port city of Calais, using sticks and iron bars in five mass brawls that mainly pitted Afghans against Eritreans, authorities said Tuesday.

The French authorities responsible for the Port of Calais have lost a court battle in the ongoing struggle to contain the acute migration problem plaguing the area, as thousands of illegals attempt to smuggle themselves north to the United Kingdom.

Representatives of British lorry drivers have called for the army to be sent to Calais to protect vehicles if attacks and attempted hijackings by migrants do not subside.

Illegal migrants in and around Calais, France, have made at least 17,000 attempts to board lorries or trains or breach the Channel Tunnel in 2017, according to French statistics.

Contents: Court orders France to provide water and sanitation to Calais migrants; French police accused of abusive treatment towards Calais migrants