BREAKING :UK TO BUILD WALL TO STOP MIGRANTS

Construction will begin soon on a "big new wall"
in the French port city of Calais to prevent
refugees and migrants from entering Britain, the
UK has announced.
The four-meter (13 foot) high wall is part of a
£17 million ($23 million) deal struck between
Britain and France earlier this year to try to
block migrants from crossing the English
Channel.
"We've done the fence. Now we're doing a wall,"
British Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill
announced at a government hearing on Tuesday.
It is the latest attempt to enhance border
security in Calais, home to a controversial
makeshift camp known as "The Jungle," where
thousands of displaced people live in squalid
conditions.
The camp is notorious for being a major transit
point for migrants, who often hop onto the back
of UK-bound cargo trucks in the hopes of
entering the country illegally. Many in "The
Jungle" are reluctant to register as refugees in
France because their preferred destination is
Britain.
Despite current security measures -- including a
fence -- Goodwill acknowledged that some
people were still managing to get through to the
UK.
"The security we're putting in at the ports is
being stepped up with better equipment. We're
going to start building this big new wall very
soon as part of the £17 million package that
we're doing with the French," he said.
The wall will be built along both sides of a 1-
kilometer (0.6 mile) stretch of road approaching
the Calais ferry port, according to the UK Home
Office.
But British truck drivers criticized the wall as a
"poor use of taxpayers' money."
Richard Burnett, head of the Road Haulage
Association (RHA), said security levels needed to
be improved not just within the port perimeter,
but in the surrounding areas up to a distance of
5 kilometers (3 miles).
"It is imperative that the money to pay for a wall
would be much better spent on increasing
security along the approach roads," he said.
Currently, drivers are advised they should not to
stop within 150 miles of the port.
Burnett said the RHA sympathized with the
Calais businesses and residents affected by the
influx of migrants, but said he was focused on
the "drivers who now accept that physical
threats are just a part of the job."
"This is morally wrong and cannot be allowed to
continue," he said.
The wall is due to be completed by the end of
this year..


Source :CNN
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE