France mulls preventing small boat crossings to UK • FRANCE 24 English

these migrants had been camping a few hundred meters from the beach near Calala They were ready to board small boats headed for the United Kingdom when French police found their camp and ordered them to pack up and leave We want to continue living freely They shouldn’t stop us but instead make it easier for us to get to the UK The police called a local charity to bring food and water The migrants ask us not to film their faces up close Some tell us they don’t want their families to see the conditions they’re living in How’s it going not so good We meet Iraqis Egyptians Afghans Syrians and Kuwaitis Many have traveled along smugglers routes from Turkey like this woman who arrived in France six weeks ago The journey here was very difficult I went to Turkey I stayed there for a few days Then I traveled in a truck illegally After 3 days I arrived in France Since then I’ve been trying to cross to the UK They leave on foot but no one seems to know where they’re going The police escort them to make sure they don’t set up camp again nearby French police are trying to disrupt the plans laid by migrants and their smugglers to cross the channel to the UK in small boats We come board and then police come midnife finished They cut the boat Yeah cut them That’s not good But they’re not deterred And why don’t you stay in France france France is like this The UK is paying France over€500 million euros to prevent small boats from crossing the channel But the number of successful crossings is 42% higher than at the same time last year That very morning 14 small boats managed to cross to the UK

France is considering stopping Britain-bound migrant boats in its shallow coastal waters, but the move raises both safety and legal issues. France has long been a launchpad for migrants who pay smugglers large sums of money to cross the Channel and start a better life in Britain. The UK is paying France over 500 million euros to prevent small boats from crossing the channel.
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48 comments

  2. This has been happening for more than 20 years now, and suddenly they "mull" preventing?

    What does that even mean, "to mull"…

    Both governments are 100% complicit on this!

  5. With drone technology it's hard to believe that the UK can't police this small strip of sea, spot every boat, and have secure transports waiting to escort these young men to military airports for return home.

  9. Europe gambled with it borders and will forever lose control of it. Ladies and gentlemen never start what you can't finish.

  11. In the UK, we should move every single one of them to the border next to ireland 🇮🇪 and send them back to the EU. We can all see the trouble at the Irish have and I believe it’s not fair at all for them. But the Europeans not protecting the southern border that’s allowing us to happen. And we are suffering back in the UK. We pay the French half 1,000,000,000 pounds and they do nothing. They push them off and wave to them as they go. Unbelievable behavior by the French.

  12. Woke foolish European destroying their own continent with liberal weak policies that destroy a nation ; why don’t those migrants go to China or rich Arab countries they share more in ideology thank god we have Trump no more migrant

  17. The UK is paying France half a billion pounds to stop the flow of the small boats, and all France is doing is to mull?

  22. If the UK would make it known worldwide that it is NOT the Paradise they think, and send them home drastically, that would probably not happen. Take them all or send them back quickly, instead of discussing, because we don't want them either.

  32. France has been taking the rip for years now. We don't want them in the UK as they contribute nothing and just take, like parasites.

  33. I'm actually amazed by the sheer arrogance of the migrant that says 'France is like this', while fleeing from a country rimmed with war and abject poverty.

  34. They have just come to take back their money that your forefathers stole from their country. They didn't stop you from going in. Why are you stopping them from coming in? What kind of hippocratic animals are you?

  37. All it takes to build a strong Border Security, sending your Military might help to arrest these Illegals and send them back to their Country of origin

  40. Sign the petition on Gov Uk to stop UK agreement to have immigrant Hub in France, it will only legalise this process and make things worse. Read the petition.

  41. Why would an illegal immigrant want to leave France for the UK? Does the UK offer more benefits or something, what gives?
    What's wrong with staying in the EU?
    Seems extra risky crossing the channel…

  48. France is a very nice country, many Brits go there for holidays every year.. Why would migrants want to leave there?

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