Calais Migrant Camp

Fifteen French police officers were injured Thursday morning after they attempted to clear a makeshift migrant camp in Calais.

A French pro-migrant group in Calais “hijacked” product reviews on Amazon to call for support for migrants in the city and to collect donations.

A migrant camp in Calais, France in which 700 to 800 migrants were squatting was dismantled by French police on Tuesday, in what is being characterized as the largest operation since the destruction of the notorious Calais “Jungle” in 2016.

The mayor of Calais claimed that Britain has “declared maritime war” by floating the idea of sending the Royal Navy to the English Channel to prevent further waves of illegal boat migrants from reaching British shores from France.

Dozens of illegal boat migrants were brought ashore at Dover after being intercepted in the English Channel by the Border Force, despite coronavirus outbreaks in migrant camps in France.

Britain’s Road Haulage Association has warned that migrants have abandoned tightly-secured Calais for less protected ports like Normandy with drivers fearing increased violence and rape.

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.

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.

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.

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says that two centers will be set up to handle hundreds of migrants returning to the northern port city of Calais since a vast makeshift camp was shut down last fall.

ROME (AFP) – From waves of dinghies setting off from Libya to the appearance of privately-funded rescue ships, the face of the migration crisis in the Mediterranean has changed greatly over the past few years. – Overcrowding dinghies – Up

Marine Le Pen’s globalist rival in the French presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron, has promised to rip up border controls in France, potentially opening Britain up to a new wave of illegal migration.

A new museum opened in London on Wednesday aims to present “the long and magnificent nature” of migration to the UK, according to its director, who said that almost everyone in Britain is descended from migrants.

PARIS (AP) — Aid groups feeding migrants in the northern French port city of Calais are defying a municipal order to stop.

Pupils in Valenciennes were encouraged to think about the “feelings, pains, and hopes” of migrants, in workshops which were instead supposed to educate and spread awareness about journalism.

Immigration officers will question a migrant who paddled to Britain in a kayak over claims he raped a British aid worker in the Calais “Jungle” camp. The attack, which is said to be common knowledge among aid workers, reportedly took

The Home Office has set up a team to check the real ages of “child” migrants from Albania amid fears that their carers, and schools, are being put in danger.

Backbench Tory rebel Stephen Phillips has resigned from parliament, citing “significant policy differences” between himself and the government. The former Tory MP, who represented the strongly Euroskeptic constituency of Sleaford and North Hyekham in Lincolnshire, has been very vocal in his

PARIS (AP) — Police and city officials are clearing out hundreds of migrants camped out on sidewalks in northern Paris in a camp that recently grew into a new challenge for the French government.

(REUTERS) – French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good.

Only days after police cracked down on migrant slums on the streets of Paris, gangs of migrants armed with clubs fought each other in the Stalingrad district of the French capital.

Queens Park Rangers (QPR) football club is set to bring 1,000 alleged “child migrants” from France to the UK.

(REUTERS) – The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the “Jungle” shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said on Friday.

Despite the clean, safe, accommodation on offer for them across France, migrants moved from the Calais “jungle” say they are more determined than ever to reach the UK. France’s refusal to grant them large city dwellings, and the desire to

France has demanded that Britain take in nearly 1,500 “child migrants” staying in Calais, who councils say will cost taxpayers £133,000 per head. The diplomatic row that has broken out over the fate of the alleged minors comes after a

Pop singer Lily Allen has claimed a taxi driver “discriminated” against her because of her pro mass-migration views.

A young woman was gang-raped by five men amid the destruction of the Calais Jungle camp, French prosecutors have revealed.

A left-wing activist leading protests in Calais is a self-described “freelance troublemaker” who promised this week to “organise riots” in the Jungle camp and once said Islamic State attacks in Europe were good for migrants.

“There are so many people (in Calais), so many boys. When you walk down the road they will talk to you and we hear they are raping some girls,” Magda, 24, who arrived in Calais from Ethiopian told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The number of ‘child’ migrants the UK is expected to take in the next 3 weeks, thanks to a new loophole in immigration law, has shot up from 450 to 650, with 200 having already arrived in the past week.

British anarchists and open borders activists have promised to “fight the police” in Calais this week to stop them demolishing the illegal Jungle migrant camp.

The entrance to the immigration centre welcoming busloads of ‘child’ migrants every day from Calais has been obscured by a 15ft high scaffolding and canvas fence, hiding the identities of new arrivals.

UK Independence Party leadership candidate Raheem Kassam spoke to radio host Jon Gaunt Thursday about the alleged “underage” migrants from Calais who turned out to be adults, and demanded full medical and dental checks for those migrants entering Britain claiming to be children.

Immigration officials placed blankets over the heads of ‘child refugees’ arriving in the UK today, after photos of new arrivals sparked a row over the true age of migrants earlier this week.

Around two-thirds of the ‘child’ migrants screened by Home Office officials when their ages were called into question have been found to be adults, figures reveal.

A translator and journalist of Afghan origin making a film about child sexual abuse in the Calais migrant camp has been robbed and raped at knifepoint by three migrants.