Hundreds of illegals demand the French send them to Great Britain
Source: express.co.uk
HUNDREDS of migrants in Calais have written to the French authorities demanding to be allowed to travel to Britain “as soon as possible”.Until they are allowed into the UK, they say, they should be given houses in Calais and freedom from police checks.
Their demands follow the bulldozing of three illegal camps in the Channel port town on Wednesday.
French police this week began expelling around 650 illegal immigrants from camps in Calais
A group representing more than 1,000 migrants still living rough in the area has handed an open letter to Denis Robin, the local prefect, containing a series of “demands” to help speed their passage to the UK.
Besides being given “houses in Calais with respectable hygiene, freedom from police checks, and three meals a day”, the migrants also want “negotiations between France and the United Kingdom” to ensure their arrival in Britain as soon as possible.
“We do not want to live like animals but as normal human beings,” the letter says, stating they want “access to decent living conditions regardless of whether we are documented or not”. Last night one migrant, Younes Sajadi, said: “This would be a sensible solution to our situation. We will never give up on our ambitions to get to Britain and so everybody would benefit if we could go there as soon as possible.”
The migrants mainly come from such war-torn countries as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Eritrea.
Once in Britain they will claim asylum and all the social security and other benefits that entails. Such hospitality is not easily available in France which is why the migrants continually try to sneak aboard lorries heading here. A Sudanese migrant was killed a week ago after trying to conceal himself under a British coach in a supermarket carpark.
Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart has long argued that Britain’s “generous welfare system” is the real cause of the migrant crisis in her town. M. Robin confirmed “negotiations” would continue with the migrants and the British authorities but said EU law stopped France letting undocumented foreigners make their way to the UK without checks.
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