Definitely Not Britain's Problem, But How Should France Start To Address This?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/special-report-an-immigration-crisison-britains-doorstep-in-calais-9129630.html

[Zacs-Master]

I don't think the French see this as their problem.

[Old_Jim]

This is a problem for the Schengen agreement countries to address. If these people qualify to enter the Schengen area, they qualify to enter Britain and can get on the next Eurostar to St Pancras. If they don't qualify to enter the Schengen area, they shouldn't be in France. If they are eligible for refugee status, EC rules state that they should be given asylum in the first country they arrive in. That leaves France a limited number of choices:
1) Legal - give them a train ticket to London
2) Illegal - deport them
3) Refugees who first landed in France - give them asylum
4) Refugees who first landed in another EU country - send them there for asylum.
France and the other Schengen countries complain when the UK doesn't stick to the rules. Let them show us how it's done.

[ToraToraTora]

The relevant EU law says they must apply for assylum in the first safe country, end of! Of course being the only law that helps Britain it's the only one the EU ignores.

[emmie]

by sending them back from whence they came, if they have no papers, then someone must have a clue as to where they likely come from, from their language, of course i sympathise, but those who spend thousands getting to France, UK, must be dissuaded from settling in, France and UK cannot keep on taking in more and more people, and spending that money in their home countries surely could have got them started in a somewhat better life.

[modeller]

France has never dissuaded immigrants from going on to the UK . For years
the have provided shelter for them whilst they ( immigrants ) try night after night to get across the channel . The French police do little or nothing to stop them . Why would they ? And once here our gutless lot allow them to stay, because where can we send them ? No other country will accept them and they destroy any means of identifying their country of origen or they say they can't go home because their human rights are at risk. That's why thousands of criminals have settled here.

[boxtops]

On TV last night it was stated that France is trying to get the UK to accept some responsibility for looking after the illegals in the Jungle in Calais. IMO - what a cheek -we didn't ask them to try to break into the UK. If they were genuine asylum seekers, they can claim asylum at the first country they come to - they don't have to trek across Europe to sit looking across the Channel. We must try to dispel the myth that our streets are paved with gold....

[emmie]

sadly that myth isn't busted once they get here, at least until they spend nights begging on our streets, and find that they could end up working, but for a sh ite boss, who will exploit them at every turn.