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Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Breaking news on Sky
French police have begun an operation to clear a notorious immigrant squatter camp on the outskirts of Calais.
Police public order teams gathered at local barracks in the French port, ahead of an operation to detain illegal immigrants and demolish the makeshift camp, known as 'the Jungle'.
As the first dozen officers entered the camp a small group of rights activists formed a human chain trying to bar access to the migrants, shouting "no border, no nation, stop deportation" As we don't want them in Britain the French can keep them.
The makeshift tent city grew up after France closed a large Red Cross centre at nearby Sangatte in 2002 under pressure from Britain, which saw it as a magnet for illegal immigrants.
The main focus is on an area about half a mile south-east of the main port, known as the 'Pashtun jungle' due to the fact it is largely populated by Afghan migrants.
Other migrant dwellings in Calais have already been hit by police raids, including a Sudanese 'jungle' to the west of the port, and another Afghan dominated area on the dune land to the East, known as the 'Hazara jungle'.
A row of houses closer into the main town that is dominated by Africans, largely from Eritrea, has also been targeted.
According to aid agencies, the immigrants were being taken in buses to police stations to be processed. From there they will be sent back to the countries where they entered European Union. It was thought that many will end up in Greece, one of the main points of entry for the immigrants. But aid agencies have predicted that many will end up back on the streets.
Fifteen-year-old Sail Pardes, from eastern Afghanistan, had been at the camp for six months and was hoping to make his way to England. He added: "Most of the time we're tired. The most important thing is to get to England. I want to go to school and become a better person." 
Taken at face value  that statement is hard to resist. Unfortunately experience shows that too many of those other boys and young men who have come to England have not become 'better people' in the sense that English adults understand it.
The Telegraph reported last night on a specific aspect of this clearance.
While most (of the immigrants) are resigned to seeing their tarpaulin and wooden shelters torn to the ground, they are determined to preserve the mosque.
"It is a holy place where we pray night and day. The police must not harm it,' said Rachid, a 21-year-old Afghan. "We are expecting the worst when the police arrive, but we will defend our mosque at all costs."
The makeshift structure is the best built in the camp. Young men, prostrate in prayer, can be seen inside. Yesterday, it was surrounded by fresh flowers.
(Said) Mansoor, 32 and also from Afghanistan. "We do not want any trouble, but fighting sometimes breaks out because of the way we are treated. If they show disrespect to our mosque then we will respond accordingly."
The French authorities have waited until the end of the Muslim feast of Ramadan before tearing down the jungle, which has become a magnet for people from all over the world who want to get across to Dover, where they claim asylum or disappear into Britain's black economy.

Posted on 09/22/2009 1:58 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Comments
22 Sep 2009
Send an emailMary Jackson

Whether or not wogs begin at Calais, Muslims certainly do. Keep 'em out.



22 Sep 2009
Alan R

 There is a massive global lobby from bodies such as the UNHRC, the E.U., the Refugee Council (UK), as well as from the wider political 'left' for Western countries to admit a continuous, unending stream of large numbers of illegal immigrants/'refugees'.

 The site at Calais includes many illegal immigrants from Islamic countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia. Britain, not least because of the bountiful welfare payments for immigrants, is a preferred destination for such people.

The time is overdue when the national governments of the West, particularly of Western Europe, must put a block on immigration; but, of course, in Europe, E.U. membership prevents such action.

 So, what is continuing to happen, under the multicultural guise of 'guilt' and 'diversity' is that the countries of the West are, in Lawrence Auster's words, committing "national suicide".

 His essay (of 1990 ) is still crucially relevant:

"The Path to National Suicide: An Essay in Immigration and Multiculturalism"

-available in PDF format here:

http://jtl.org/auster/PNS.pdf

 



22 Sep 2009
wtf

Glad they are going but I bet they will be paraphrasing that line of Schwarzenegger's: "We'll be back!"

But lads, don't hurry. Take your time.



22 Sep 2009
Alan R

 

'Daily Mail' update:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1214848/Britain-obsessed-asylum-seekers-let-UK-earliest-convenience-says-Europes-Justice-Commisioner.html



22 Sep 2009
Send an emailJohn P.

This is just the beginning. Whole swaths of the Third World, particularly those parts of it that are Muslim, simply cannot support the basic needs of their population. Yet, the social and family planning "policies", often based upon Islam's core texts, are so backward, inapporpriate and unfeasable that nothing is going to stop these mass  migrations. What will the portrait look like in ten years time?

    Obviously, neither Europe nor America could ever take in these migrants without being virtually destroyed, and so what will we do? We can't feed them, clothe them or house them, and yet neither can their home countries. And were we to give them yet more foreign aid, it'll just be squandered by greedy and corrupt elites on various programmes, projects and armaments acquisitions...as we,ve seen in the case of Pakistan.

The world's different regions move at vastly different speeds, and the gap ( pick any field of human activity) between these regions grows wider  ( and more dangerous) with each passing year.

And to make matters even worse, the marginal benefits that accrue to a few western nations because of an influx of cheap  labour will soon be non-existent owing to the rapid development on the fields of both robotics and automation. We're seeing an unprecedented demographic explosion in the Third World while at the same time the First  World is fast approaching a world-historical first wherein most cheap, manual labour may soon be unnecessary



22 Sep 2009
Artemis

"...known as the 'Pashtun jungle' due to the fact it is largely populated by Afghan migrants.
Other migrant dwellings in Calais have already been hit by police raids, including a Sudanese 'jungle' to the west of the port, and another Afghan dominated area on the dune land to the East, known as the 'Hazara jungle'."

They cannot even assimilate with their each other, with their co-religionists, with their holy bretheren.  Self-created ghettos within ghettos within ghettos...

I hope that these potential immigrants do get an education and become "better people", back in Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, and wherever else they came from.  I love "better people".  I am pro-"better-people".  If they have a difficult time becoming "better people" in their native countries, they should dig down and fight the conditions, or should I say condition, that makes it difficult to become a "better person."



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