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Immigration: Calais under siege?
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They call it the 'Jungle' here in France - a strip of land in the northern French port of Calais. The town's mayor says the hundreds of illegal immigrants who use it as a staging post while trying to enter the UK are creating an intolerable burden.
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by Bill Bogg (not verified) - 24/04/2009 - 19:17

If the EU cannot agree a common approach to this problem what can they agree on ? Unlike most problems it is a problem common to all the countries. We do not have an immigration police it seemed to be implied that we do. The ID Card is not a problem because if they are accepted they can get anything they want.

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