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UK to Build Wall at Calais Amid Migrant Crisis

© AFP 2023 / PHILIPPE HUGUEN Men pray in the migrants and refugee camp in Calais, northern France. File photo
Men pray  in the migrants and refugee camp in Calais, northern France. File photo - Sputnik International
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The United Kingdom plans to build a wall at France's Calais, British Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said Tuesday.

Trucks are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway leading to the Channel tunnel, northern France, Calais, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The United Kingdom plans to build a 13-foot-high and 0.6-mile-long wall at France's Calais in response to the desperate situation in the so-called Jungle migrant camp, British Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said Tuesday.

"We are going to start building this big new wall very soon. We've done the fence, now we are doing a wall," Goodwill told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, as quoted by the Sky News broadcaster.

On Monday, two convoys of at least 40 trucks and tractors joined a demonstration slowing traffic at a major highway near Calais, protesting against the presence of the camp.

A man speaks with a police officer as a dozen of truck drivers gather in a parking on September 5, 2016 in Loon Plage prior to a slow-down operation on the A16 highway to ask for the dismantling of the so-called Jungle migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais - Sputnik International
Trucks Block Highway Near Calais, France in Protest Against Jungle Migrant Camp
Since last year, Calais has served as the location of the Jungle, notorious for its dreadful living conditions. Thousands of migrants, many from the Middle East and North Africa, are living in the Jungle, located not far from the Channel Tunnel, in the hope of reaching the United Kingdom.

As of early August, there were more than 9,000 people residing in the Jungle camp, including 865 minors, of whom 676 were unaccompanied children.

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