French police clear migrant camp at launch point for Britain

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French police on Tuesday dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port of Calais, from where thousands of illegal economic migrants and would-be asylum seekers have sought to cross the English Channel to reach British shores.

A police source said the operation began shortly before sunrise. The makeshift camp was home to about 700 migrants, the source added.

Several thousand migrants have attempted the perilous crossing this year, often paying people traffickers to help them traverse one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in overloaded rubber dinghies. Britain has repeatedly pressed President Emmanuel Macron’s government to do more to prevent the migrants leaving France. The British government has called the high numbers who made the illegal crossing this summer unacceptable.Many of the migrants are from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and countries in Africa, fleeing poverty, persecution or war.

 

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Hey Reuters - this report uses inflammatory & inconsistent language. First line calls camp residents 'illegal economic migrants and would-be asylum seekers'. Final line says many are fleeing poverty, persecution or war. That's not 'balance'; it's stoking prejudice. Do better.

Get them out of there.

Arrest & deport these illegals! There is no other choice!

In which direction?

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