Posted on 08/29/2016 2:01:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
Nicolas Sarkozy has joined other conservative French politicians in demanding that border controls for thousands of migrants in Calais be shifted to Britain.
The former centre-Right president made the call in a speech in Le Touquet, the northern town where he signed agreements in 2003 allowing British officials to check passports in France and vice-versa, when he was interior minister.
The accords were part of a bilateral deal to close a former migrants’ centre at Sangatte, near Calais.
But Mr Sarkozy said France can no longer tolerate the presence of about 9,000 migrants living in the squalid “Jungle” camp in Calais while they attempt to smuggle themselves into Britain.
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The tunnel is rail only. Only a handful have succeeded in walking through it undetected. Most of the migrants who’ve made it across stow away in trucks before the crossing, either on the truck-carrying rail shuttle or the ferries.
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