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Migrant Fears as Bulldozers Head for French 'Jungle' Camp
2016-01-14
[AnNahar] Authorities in the northern French port of Calais were struggling to move hundreds of migrants into refitted shipping containers on Wednesday ahead of plans to bulldoze part of the notorious "Jungle" camp.

The government had planned to move 500-700 migrants and refugees out of the grim makeshift camp into refitted containers with heaters, electricity plugs and cribs for newborns. But many are reluctant to leave their tents, cafes and shops in the Jungle, and are suspicious about the new camp, which is surrounded by barbed wire and requires a fingerprint scan to come and go.

There is concern that the 125 containers -- each holding 12 people -- are not nearly enough for the 4,000 people currently estimated to be in the Jungle, who are trying to smuggle their way to Britannia by ferry or on cross-Channel trains.
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  The Killdozer rides again!
Vroom vroom clank clank clank....

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Posted by: Nguard   2016-01-14 20:08  

#10  Just don't bump the containers too many times when you do that, because that would be mean & disrespectful, and we can't have that!
Posted by: Raj   2016-01-14 18:07  

#9  Looks my idea of sending them back in shipping containers on big boats is slowly taking form. Just pick them up & put them on the ships, Pierre.

Bwhahahaha!
Posted by: Raj   2016-01-14 18:05  

#8  Give the "migrants" credit for some brains: these ARE shipping containers. They go to bed one night, and in the morning the doors are locked, the floor is swaying, and they find out they're on a ship chartered by Nigel Farage, with the whole lot are headed back to Syria...
Posted by: ptah   2016-01-14 12:49  

#7  The French could buy them one way train tickets to Germany. The NYPD sends bums to DC and Miami via AMTRAK.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-14 11:57  

#6  Rachel Corrie come to the white courtesy phone please.
In keeping with the times.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-01-14 11:31  

#5  "get into these habitable shipping containers, or we'll bring out the not-so-habitable ones for your ride back"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-01-14 10:37  

#4  The eurines liked refugee camps a lot when they were elsewhere. In their own back yard, not so much...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-01-14 09:29  

#3  How's Caterpillar stock doin'?
Posted by: AlanC   2016-01-14 07:32  

#2  All day in the Pas-de-Calais,
They dance out a dainty ballet,
With truckers uplifting
The jongleurs a-grifting
To CRS', "Allez, allez!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-01-14 04:13  

#1  Paging Rachel Corrie. Rachel Corrie come to the white courtesy phone please.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-01-14 03:11  

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