{"id":6698,"date":"2016-09-23T05:23:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T04:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2016-11-01T05:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:28:55","slug":"france-great-wall-calais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/09\/23\/france-great-wall-calais\/","title":{"rendered":"France: The Great Wall of Calais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/09\/23\/france-great-wall-calais\/france-wall-calais\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6699\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6699\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/france-wall-calais.jpg\" alt=\"france-wall-calais\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/france-wall-calais.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/france-wall-calais-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Building work has begun on a wall in Calais, a major transport hub on the edge of the English Channel, to prevent migrants from stowing away on cars, trucks, ferries and trains bound for Britain.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>France: The Great Wall of Calais<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/9012\/calais-migrants\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | September 23, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Building work has begun on a wall in the northern French city of Calais, a major transport hub on the edge of the English Channel, to prevent migrants from stowing away on cars, trucks, ferries and trains bound for Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cThe Great Wall Of Calais,\u201d the concrete barrier \u2014 one kilometer (half a mile) long and four meters (13 feet) high on both sides of the two-lane highway approaching the harbor \u2014 will pass within a few hundred meters of a sprawling shanty town known as \u201cThe Jungle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The squalid camp now houses more than 10,000 migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East who are trying to reach Britain. The migrants at the camp are mostly from Sudan (45%), Afghanistan (30%), Pakistan (7%), Eritrea (6%) and Syria (1%), <a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.helprefugees.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/census-edit-kids.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a recent census conducted by aid agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the wall \u2014 which will cost British taxpayers \u00a32 million (\u20ac2.3 million; $2.6 million) and is due to be completed by the end of 2016 \u2014 comes amid a surge in the number of migrants from the camp trying to reach Britain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/9012\/calais-migrants\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building work has begun on a wall in Calais, a major transport hub on the edge of the English Channel, to prevent migrants from stowing away on cars, trucks, ferries and trains bound for Britain.<\/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":[100,202],"tags":[52,21,181,195],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-migration-crisis","tag-france","tag-immigration","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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