Migrants break into Channel Tunnel as tension mounts in Calais

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Source: Reuters

About 200 migrants broke into the Channel Tunnel from France while several hundred others held up lorries near Calais port on Saturday in renewed tension on the route for migrants trying to reach Britain.

Scores of migrants forced their way into Eurotunnel's French terminal overnight, clashing with staff and police and causing a temporary suspension of rail services, Eurotunnel (GETP.PA) said.

The company said traffic levels in the tunnel were back to normal later on Saturday following safety checks, though passenger services were expected to run with delays of up to two hours for the rest of the day.

Roughly 200 migrants entered Eurotunnel's terminal after midnight by pulling down fencing, with 120 getting into the tunnel before being intercepted inside by French police, the company and police said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/03/us-europe-migrants-eurotunnel-idUSKCN0RX06K20151003

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This is approaching "Children of Men" kind of stuff...

[christx30]

1. If they keep acting like this,

governments are going to sour on helping them, and the crackdown on them is going to be brutal.

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2. This isn't Syrians; it's a completely different group of migrants

These are mostly people from Chad and Sudan.

[christx30]

3. The point still stands. n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. The British and French government have been doing nothing for these people.

They hunker down in tent and tar-paper shack camps while stuck at the entrance to Britain.

[branford]

6. They are not "stuck."

They are free to claim asylum in France, a safe, democratic, western, first world country.

They do not have a right to asylum shop or illegally enter Britain, and if not actual refugees (i.e., they are economic migrants), they could be expelled.

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5. But I mean, nobody's ever talked about a government doing anything for this group

It's pretty much been a dead letter.

[davidpdx]

7. Thanks for pointing that out

The article I read (not this one) didn't even mention where they were from. It left one to wonder whether that was connected to the Syrian refugee crisis or not. Very piss poor reporting.