{"id":6537,"date":"2016-06-06T06:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2016-06-13T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:08:40","slug":"paris-becomes-massive-camp-illegal-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/06\/06\/paris-becomes-massive-camp-illegal-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Becomes Massive Camp for Illegal Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/06\/06\/paris-becomes-massive-camp-illegal-migrants\/france_migrants\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6538\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/france_migrants.jpg\" alt=\"france_migrants\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/france_migrants.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/france_migrants-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to build a \u201chumanitarian camp\u201d next to one of the busiest train stations in the city so that thousands of illegal migrants bound for Britain can \u201clive with dignity.\u201d<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Paris Becomes Massive Camp for Illegal Migrants<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8210\/paris-migrants\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | June 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to build a \u201chumanitarian camp\u201d next to one of the busiest train stations in the city so that thousands of illegal migrants bound for Britain can \u201clive with dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hidalgo, who has often sparred with French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande for his refusal to accept more migrants, says her plan to help illegal migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is a \u201cduty of humanism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics counter that Hidalgo\u2019s plan is a cynical ploy aimed at positioning herself to the left of the current president as part of a political strategy to wrest leadership of the Socialist Party from Hollande, whose approval ratings are a record lows.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on May 31, Hidalgo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paris.fr\/actualites\/un-nouveau-lieu-d-accueil-pour-les-migrants-a-paris-3739\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the camp would be built in northern Paris \u201cnear the arrival points for migrants.\u201d She was referring to Gare de Nord \u2014 one of the busiest railway stations in Europe \u2014 from where high-speed Eurostar trains travel to and arrive from London.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of illegal migrants, many from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan, have gathered at a nearby public park, the Jardins d\u2019Eole, and turned the area into a massive squatter camp where conditions are squalid. The area, which is so dangerous that the government has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.fr\/paris\/squatte-par-les-dealers-un-parc-du-18e-ferme-en-mars\/mmbA!LjjDLMUBS76Tg\/\" target=\"_blank\">classified<\/a> it as a no-go zone (<em>Zone de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 prioritaires, ZSP<\/em>), has become a magnet for human traffickers who charge migrants thousands of euros for fake travel documents for passage to London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8210\/paris-migrants\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to build a \u201chumanitarian camp\u201d next to one of the busiest train stations in the city so that thousands of illegal migrants bound for Britain can \u201clive with dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107,48],"tags":[180,52,195],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france-islam-in-europe","category-islam-in-europe","tag-britain","tag-france","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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