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The Migrants of Calais
Weekly Standard ^ | To be in the 7 March, 2016 edition | CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

Posted on 02/28/2016 3:57:09 PM PST by MtnClimber

"This used to all be trees," says a French policeman at the Calais approach to the Channel Tunnel, which runs 31 miles under the English Channel to Dover. Mud flats and two-story fences stretch to the horizon. Until a few decades ago, Calais was renowned as a center of lace-making. Glittering gowns and dainty underthings provided jobs for 40,000 people....

It had been thought that quartering the migrants several miles from the tunnel entrance would keep traffic flowing on the highways. But the last year has seen raids on the highway approaches that Le Monde compared to Stagecoach and other Westerns. Dozens and dozens of migrants would wander onto the highway or heave forklift pallets or light fires .  .  . anything to get the trucks to slow. If they did, the migrants would try to break the locks on the cargo section and stow aboard. Some truckers are now forbidden by their companies to park overnight within 100 miles of the tunnel.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: calais; hijrah; migrants
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1 posted on 02/28/2016 3:57:09 PM PST by MtnClimber
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Coming to a city near you. I saw that around 1,700 refugees have been moved to Denver in 2015.


2 posted on 02/28/2016 3:58:29 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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If Britain votes to stay in the EU, within a month all of those migrants will be in England.


3 posted on 02/28/2016 4:02:44 PM PST by allendale
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To: MtnClimber

Only a matter of time before the killing starts.


4 posted on 02/28/2016 4:07:02 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: MtnClimber

There are 3 people left to choose from, for those that have not voted in the Primary. Two of them get us Calis, one gets us a wall:

Cruz: If he starts doing well, no one wins the nomination on first ballot (the math doesn’t add up for him, at this point), so the GOPe gets to pick Romney at the convention.

Rubio: Same as Cruz, although they might stick with Rubio, even though he doesn’t make 50%

Trump: The wall.


5 posted on 02/28/2016 4:12:01 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: MtnClimber

All cultures are equal!

All cultures are equal!

All cultures are equal!

6 posted on 02/28/2016 4:12:54 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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7 posted on 02/28/2016 4:16:26 PM PST by cornelis
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The FACT that a “civilized” society such as France allows this manner or abuse of its laws and citizens tells me their government is a bad lot and a hot mess.

Someone needs to step up and nip this evil in full blossom. The world is a Ghetto if you allow it to be one ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKMdmPBWRk


8 posted on 02/28/2016 4:17:43 PM PST by soycd
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“Calais, we are finished, we are dead”.

http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/02/calais-we-are-finished-we-are-dead/#more-38792


9 posted on 02/28/2016 4:18:32 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SkyPilot

In 2009, France expelled 10,000 Romani back to Romania and Bulgaria. The next year, at least another 8,300 Romani were expelled up until August. wiki


10 posted on 02/28/2016 4:26:30 PM PST by cornelis
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To: Noumenon

“Only a matter of time before the killing starts.”

I’m kind of surprised it hasn’t.

L


11 posted on 02/28/2016 4:28:33 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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And just this month police stormed a "shanty camp to evict 350 Romani gypsies from trendy Paris."


12 posted on 02/28/2016 4:32:24 PM PST by cornelis
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To: MtnClimber
In the "Jungle" at Calais:


13 posted on 02/28/2016 4:38:37 PM PST by BeauBo
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It started out they let just a few dozen live there

now there are over 6,000 and the Calais stores are closed and the people are afraid to leave their homes...

they have named streets and flourishing restaurants and stores in the camp with no permits or taxes paid...

these are all illegal aliens no papers...

and Rubio wants to see Trumps tax returns...


14 posted on 02/28/2016 4:44:01 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: BeauBo

Disease vector central.


15 posted on 02/28/2016 4:54:47 PM PST by catbertz
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To: MtnClimber

Amarillo Texas allegedly has more “per capita” than any other city in the country..... more coming.


16 posted on 02/28/2016 5:08:17 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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This must be the “Change” 0bama promised.


17 posted on 02/28/2016 5:12:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Squantos

Changing a red state to a blue state...with a pen...


18 posted on 02/28/2016 5:15:44 PM PST by Does so (Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
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To: MtnClimber
The channel has always been a great line of defense, until now. Even in the past a tunnel was a worry.


19 posted on 02/28/2016 5:16:13 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Refujihadis


20 posted on 02/28/2016 5:28:20 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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