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Ongoing need for people in Calais

no one is illegal | 28.07.2009 11:22 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | South Coast | World

"We have a real lack of people from UK and France here this week and lots of work to
do.Evictions are looming and we think the Erythreans may even be evicted tomorrow !!...
Please spread the word and get people over here as soon as possible"

People in Calais need support.
NEW INFO LINES If you are coming to Calais to show solidarity and want information call (from UK) 00 ... from France 06 34 81 07 10

As this article from Greece shows, people on the ground can make a real difference.
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/435017.html

There is also advice about collecting stories and evidence of police activities rounding people up being a way to prevent illegal collecitve expulsions.

Travel from London to Calais can be done for about £30-40 depending on when you book and takes about 4hours.

Take a bike/car/camera/camping equipment and something to cook on. Medical supplies, blankets, tarps/money etc always useful.
If you can't go but can donate money please contact via website below

There are updates here  http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/

other relavent link here  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/435065.html

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wonder why

29.07.2009 05:44

"We have a real lack of people from UK and France here this week..." I wonder just why that could be?! You people need to open your eyes.


'Hundreds of thousands of migrants here for handouts, says senior judge'

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants come to Britain just to get welfare benefits, a senior judge declared yesterday.
Judge Ian Trigger said the cost of the handouts has helped to double the national debt.
He spoke out as he gave a two-year jail sentence to a Jamaican drug minder who disappeared from the notice of immigration authorities after claiming asylum.
He told Lucien McClearley, 31, at Liverpool Crown Court: 'Your case illustrates all too clearly the completely lax immigration policy that exists and has existed over recent years.'
Sentencing McClearley, he added: 'People like you, and there are literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people like you, come to these shores to avail themselves of the generous welfare benefits that exist here.
'In the past ten years the national debt of this country has risen to extraordinary heights, largely because central Government has wasted billions of pounds. Much of that has been wasted on welfare payments.
'For every £1 that the decent citizen, who is hard-working, pays in taxes, nearly 10 per cent goes on servicing that national debt. That is twice the amount it was in 1997 when this Government came to power.'
McClearley arrived legally in Britain in November 2001 on a visitor's visa.
He was arrested in October 2002 after it ran out but claimed asylum and was released while this was being processed.
He then 'disappeared from the radar of the authorities', the court heard. His application was rejected in 2004 but he was only arrested this February after police stopped a car he was driving and noticed it smelled of cannabis.
A search of the house where McClearley was staying in
He admitted taking a vehicle without consent, possessing cannabis and cocaine, possessing a class-B drug with intent and two counts of possessing false identity documents.
Judge Trigger, who is also a part-time immigration judge, told McClearley: 'The fact that it took nearly two years to process your claim shows how desperate the situation in this country has become.'
The 65-year-old judge said he 'hoped and trusted' McClearley would be deported immediately on release.



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