Calais jungle camp to move to Dover

**eek** · 4 July 2016, 20:13

Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

Looks like the Calais jungle camp will be moving to Dover after the French elections.

French presidential frontrunner Alain Juppé calls to end Le Touquet agreement and place border with UK on British soil | UK Politics | News | The Independent

Why would it move to Dover?

Once they are over here they will just find somewhere to live...

**BlasterBates** · 4 July 2016, 20:14

Yes you're probably right, they'll just disperse.

**SueEllen** · 4 July 2016, 21:25

Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

Yes you're probably right, they'll just disperse.

Great.

London and Slough will just get more crowded.

I think I should let my shed out...

**GB9** · 4 July 2016, 21:35

Why do you assume they would be let across the border at all?

**SunnyInHades** · 4 July 2016, 23:52

Easy to stop overnight..

Andrea Leadsom: Any migrant deemed to have arrived from France will only be able to claim 30% of the benefit levels offered by France for the first 10 years of their residence in UK
Liberal Elite: You can't do that - it's against EU law
Andrea Leadsom: EU law means nothing to us. We make the rules now, we run this b**ch, we're the daddy
Economic Migrant At Calais: Sod that for a game of soldiers, I'm staying in France. Might go to Germany or Sweden as they offer better benefits.

**vetran** · 5 July 2016, 00:43

If they come through the tunnel just do what the french do, pop them on the next train back to the last country they passed through.

**NotAllThere** · 5 July 2016, 04:52

Passport control France to UK has been in France since Eurotunnel started operating. Similarly, passport control UK to France has been on the UK side. Eurotunnel is politically a sensitive issue for the French, as there are very many French shareholders with small holdings. France won't do anything to upset them.

So that won't change.

Touquet is the establishment of immigration controls into the UK on French soil, and controls into Schengen area on UK soil - it concerns Eurostar and the ferries. If that's abolished, immigrants from France will be checked on arrival. Under the Dublin regulation, if an individual was registered for asylum already in another country (they're fingerprinted on registration, and the database is shared), they can be sent back to that other country. Two problems.

1. It's EU law - Britain won't necessarily be party to it
2. The country of first registration has to agree to take the person back

**Old Greg** · 5 July 2016, 07:06

Originally posted by eek View Post

Why would it move to Dover?

Because once we're out of the EU, the French are not going to quietly let all the Brexit refugees through the tunnel.

**VectraMan** · 5 July 2016, 07:50

Originally posted by GB9 View Post

Why do you assume they would be let across the border at all?

Assuming they can find the money for the ticket, who's going to stop them?

BTW the tunnel terminal isn't in Dover. It's in Folkestone.

Calais jungle camp to move to Dover