Implode-o-Meter News - At Channel Tunnel, Migrant Crisis Evolves Into a Political One

The British are blaming the French, the French are blaming the British, and both are blaming the European Union for an incoherent policy toward the thousands of people, many of them fleeing political horrors at home, who are trying to find jobs and a better future for themselves and their families in Europe.
... The migrants, most of them from Libya, Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan, are finding new strategies to exhaust the French police, cut through fencing, stow away on trucks and try to get to Britain through the Channel tunnel. In the nightly game of attack and run, chase and release, traffic through the tunnel has been badly disrupted, and at least nine migrants have died in their attempts since June.

Some estimates are that the mess is costing the British economy 250 million pounds, or about $390 million, a day, while local governments in southern England are struggling to cope with at least a doubling of illegal migrants, who must be housed and fed, especially those who are minors.
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Peter Sutherland, a former European Union commissioner and now the United Nations special representative for international migration, said that the British reaction is "grossly excessive in terms of Calais," characterizing the calls to stop economic migrants "a xenophobic response to the issue of free movement."

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At Channel Tunnel, Migrant Crisis Evolves Into a Political One