Topic: | Re:Re:Refugees in Calais | |
Posted by: | Rima Jones | |
Date/Time: | 19/08/15 23:37:00 |
Reported in today's ES:- Mrs May and her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve are both agreed on humanitarian aid for the Calais migrants. They view solving the migrant crisis as their top priority. The £3m Jules Ferry Centre which provides showers, hot meals, an advice centre and accommodation in refurbished cabins for women and children will be enlarged to make life easier for the 5,000 migrants sleeping rough in the Calais area as they try to get to Britain to claim asylum. Other measures will,include a clampdown on people smugglers and 17 "callous" gangs trafficking people across the Mediterranean to Europe have been smashed this year. |