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UK to build 'big new wall' in Calais to stop migrants

The camp sprawls over about 40 acres of sand dunes once used for landfill, with different nationalities in different sections.

UK will soon start construction on a "big new wall" in the French port city of Calais to prevent refugees and migrants from entering Britain.
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 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. 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.


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