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Scores of illegal migrants in the French port of Calais have tried to force their way onto a ferry bound for England, officials and witnesses say.
Passenger John Bailey told the BBC that the migrants tried to get access to the vessel by running up the main ramp.
But he said they were prevented from gaining entry when the crew raised the ramp and turned a fire hose on them.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29057709
Time to do something meaningful about this problem methinks. How long can we allow thousands of people to hang around our borders trying repeatedly to enter the UK illegally? IMHO most of these people aren't interested in safety or asylum, they're economic migrants interested in getting to the UK where they know the immigration system is full of holes and benefits/welfare system is far easier to access and abuse. They know that if they get in they will be allowed to disappear and even when they're caught, quite possibly years later, they'll be treated to appeal after appeal in order to prevent their removal. Furthermore they know that if they manage to make someone pregnant, the chances of their removal ever are remote in the extreme and the key to the welfare system have been handed over to them.
Continuing to bang on about secure borders and terrorist threats is meaningless rhetoric while we allow this to happen.
I have some sympathy for the French too, if our systems were as robust as theirs these people wouldn't be in France trying to get here.