Trumped! Massive concrete wall planned for Calais to keep migrants out of Britain

Wednesday, September 7, 2016
By Paul Martin

RT.com
7 Sep, 2016

Britain will soon begin building a “big, new wall” at a cost of £2 million ($2.6 million) in an attempt to halt the flow of migrants and refugees crossing the English Channel, Britain’s new immigration minister has confirmed.

The 13-foot-tall (four-meter-tall) concrete barrier will replace fencing that has so far failed to prevent migrants from jumping aboard trucks headed for the port. Construction on the wall, which will stretch over the half mile (one kilometer) approaching the ferry port, is set to begin this month.

“People are still getting through,” Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told the Commons home affairs committee on Tuesday.

“We have done the fences. Now we are doing the wall.”

Goodwill, who served as transport minister until July, when he took over as immigration minister, told MPs that the project is part of joint £17-million ($22.7-million) Anglo-Franco project to beef up security at the Channel ports.

“We are going to start building this big, new wall as part of the £17 million package we are doing with the French. There is still more to do. We have also invested in space for 200 lorries at Calais so that they have somewhere safe to wait.”

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