Hundreds of migrants raided the port of Calais in France, tearing down barriers and allowing around 50 to board a ship. 35 of the raiders were arrested, 24 were migrants, and 11 were members of a pro-migrant activist group called No Borders. The raid disturbed the ferry traffic for more than 2 hours between Calais and Dover, England. More than 2,000 people attended an earlier migrant support demonstration in downtown Calais.
6,000 migrants and refugees live in a refugee camp close to Calais called "The Jungle". Many of them are hoping to illegally enter the United Kingdom hoping for a better and safer life. The "Jungle" quickly became a campsite on a waste ground. The migrants and refugees are living in very unsanitary conditions. Recently the French Government has been trying to move residents into cleaner more sanitary conditions.
It's nice to hear that the French Government is trying to make the lives of those refugees and migrants easier by moving them into shelters made out of metal shipping containers with heating and electricity. If every country who had an increase of immigrants made this kind of effort maybe there wouldn't be a problem of people entering countries illegally.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/europe/france-port-calais-jungle-migrant-crisis/index.html
This is nice to hear. This is very similar to when the US assisted refugees in Cuba in escaping political persecution during the Spanish-American War.
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ReplyDeleteThe unsanitary housing conditions that the migrants have right now reminds me of the slums that much of the urban poor lived in during the Gilded Age. I am glad that the French government is trying to move them to a healthier and more sanitary living space. --Claudia Anthony
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