Bungled French efforts to stop migrants crossing the channel into the UK like ‘trying to empty the sea with a spoon’
BUNGLED French efforts to stop migrants crossing the channel into the UK is like “trying to empty the sea with a spoon”, Calais’s MP has moaned.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 today he said: "You only need five minutes for a smuggler to take a boat, bring all the migrants on the boat, and go to the seas.He said it would be "very difficult to stop them" coming to the UK because it's "their dream".A whopping 202 asylum seekers “We want to make this unviable and in my view the only way to do this is by intercepting and returning the boats to France.”
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