http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8268028.stm?ls

No wonder the British and French governments (as well as all the other European governments) want the Calais squats and 'jungles' cleared. It is the visible face of a Europe-wide policy of ethnic cleansing. Normally, this can be kept hidden away. Any migrant picked up gets sent quietly back to the European country they first entered - usually Greece. As Europe supports Greece's policy of 0% asylum, they can be sure that people will be deported back to their country of origin, regardless of whatever hell they've left behind.
Yet it is a human right to be able to seek asylum. The European policy (backed by the Dublin Convention) is therefore a breach of human rights.
Most of us have stood by and watched this happen. They used to round up jews in the same way and years later, we all shake our heads and say 'how could people let that happen?' Or 'I would have stood up to that and stopped it happening'. Yet today, only a small handful of activists have been battling to support the migrants.
They still need your help. Those that evade the police today will need tents and food. Those that arrive in Calais tomorrow (after months of travelling) will need support. Please don't just stand by and watch.

 http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/

"destruction about to begin - crs outside jungleabout 3 hours ago from web"

Hurrraaahhhhh !!!! Go CRS Go CRS Go CRS

We can't all go to Calais, although those that can are needed. But many of us have UK Border Agency offices and staff near us. Tomorrow the Calais 'jungle' clearances seem set to begin.

As Pashtuns in the main Afghan jungle prepare to resist the eviction, and some start hunger strikes, we call for direct actions and demonstrations at UK Border Agency offices throughout these islands.

UK Border Agency, Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon, Surrey CR9 2BY

Asylum Screening Unit - Liverpool 1st Floor, Reliance House, 20 Water Street, Liverpool, L2 8XU

Public Enquiry Offices
Solihull - Dominion Court, 41 Station Road, Solihull, Birmingham B91 3RT
Sheffield - Vulcan House, Riverside entrance, 6 Millsands, Sheffield S3 8NU
Liverpool - Reliance House, 20 Water Street, Liverpool L2 8XU
Glasgow - Festival Court, 200 Brand Street, Govan, Glasgow G51 1DH
Belfast - 1 Drumkeen Complex, Upper Galwally, Belfast BT8 6TB
Cardiff - General buildings, Ground floor, 31-33 Newport Road, Cardiff, Wales CF24 0AB

All the above Public Enquiry Offices are also biometric enrolment centres, plus
Derby - 2nd Floor, Stuart House, Green Lane, DE1 1RS
Brighton - First Floor (North Suite), 42 Frederick Place, Brighton, BN1 4EA

UKBA Customer Service Units
North West - 0161 261 1117
North East, Yorkshire and the Humber - 0114 207 2966
Midlands and East of England - 01733 847844
Wales and South West - 02920 924657
London and South East - 020 8760 8765 or 020 8760 2926

And to get through to Dover...
"Border Force Customer Service Unit - If you wish to complain about the treatment you have received at any of the United Kingdom's sea, air or rail ports, or about immigration controls at a United Kingdom port, you should contact the Border Force Customer Service Unit, phone: 01304 664511"

Report an illegal immigrant! 0800 59 5000 (HM Revenue & Customs operate this one) It's free, don't call from a phone box and leave the receiver hanging



FROM BBC NEWS WEBSITE:
UK turns down 'jungle migrants'
Some 1,500 migrants live in very poor conditions outside Calais

The UK Border Agency has rejected calls for Britain to accept some migrants from the illegal camp in Calais known as "the jungle".

High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres had said the government should consider granting entry to those who already have large families in the UK.

He spoke after French officials said the camp would be shut down imminently.

But the UK Border Agency said genuine asylum seekers should make their claim in the country where they enter Europe.

An agency spokesman said: "People seeking asylum should do so in the first safe country they come to, those who are not in need of protection will be expected to return home.

"The decision to close illegal encampments in and around Calais is a matter for the French government and we will continue to cooperate with them on tackling illegal immigration."

Read more at  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8262283.stm

Dear friends
Please don't believe that the negative comments here reflect the views of all or even most british people. These are posted by neo-nazi scum, desperately trying to make themselves look important.
I believe in our right to move freely around the world and settle where we wish. This was the way for human beings before a wealthy and powerful elite dictated where borders and controls should be established. So those people still supporting these borders and controls are supporting the power of a few elite.
I welcome you to the UK. I welcome you to my home. I want to show the same hospitality that you have in your own cultures. We have so much to learn from you.

Link to London indy
 https://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/2477

Okay, not that surprising, but the Hull MP has made a statement to the effect he is supporting the police violence and action in Calais. Still he should be informed that we are against what is happening in France at the moment.

Happily though he's got a whole website on how to contact him - time to show solidarity...

Email:  johnsona@parliament.uk
Web:  http://www.alanjohnson.org/?page_id=58

Here we go again, any chance and the racists and anti-immigration trolls come out of the undergrowth. And we even have one of Alan Green's lackeys fro MigrationSquint on the page, who clearly thinks his or her very selective use of 'facts' is so wonderful thy have to post it twice! [duplicate since taken down]

OK, let tackle some of these so-called key facts:

Fact #1: The 237,000 figure quoted for net immigration (of people expected to enter or leave the country for a period of a year or more) is for 2007 and, given that the same statistic for 1997 was 47,000 (according to the National Statistics Office), that actually makes for a 5 fold incease, so you are under estimating. But why not chose 1998, when the figure for net immigration was 139,000, which means an increase of only 70% (i.e. the increase the single year 1997-98 was nearly 300%). [See:  http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=260]

Fact #2: 237,000 divided by the number of minutes in a year = 2.2 every minute (yes the equivalent of a migrant arrives nearly every minute but a migrant leaves the country the equivalent of every 3 minutes).

Fact #3: Where does this figure come from? This is equivalent to 85,440 house a year. What set of assumptions have gone into this non-fact?

Fact #4: On what factual basis can someone claim that a country is crowded? Do you mean population density? Been reading too many Optimum Population Trust press release again.

Monaco - 16,410
Gibraltar - 5,119
Malta - 1,309
UK - 246
(inhabitants per square km)

Fact #5: 237,000 x 20 = 4,740,000 not 7,000,000. Maybe MigrationSquint must mean that those filthy foreigners will also have the audacity to breed as well. The influence of net migration on population numbers in the UK is actually at its lowest since 2003-04. [See:  http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=950]

Fact #6: Oh dear, it's the Optimum Population Trust line again. Maybe we should just try culling a few of the feckless proles and social inadequates to keep the figure under the magic 70 million or prevent those bloody Northerners from coming down South?


Facts you didn't take in to account:

In 2007 340,000 people emigrated and planned to remain out of the country for 12 months or more, half of those were non-UK citizens. 547,000 entered the country & planned to stay for a year or more, 13% of those were UK citizens and 18% were, for example, Poles. The actual increase in net immigration was down to the 17% decrease in long-term emigrants (those who planned to remain outside of the UK for 4 years or more).

These trends are set to decrease sharply in 2008 and 2009 as an awful lot of those 96,000 Poles (who no doubt were mostly classed as short-term 1-4 year immigrants anyway) will already have returned along with those forces out because of the lack of available jobs due to the so-called global financial crisis.


On the asylum question: the migrants will be offered the chance to apply for asylum which is not the same thing as offering asylum. Most of them will probably have travelled through Greece and already have been fingerprinted and be on the Eurodac database, so they wont get asylum. And the rest just better have some pretty good documentation, otherwise they are on the next flight back to Kabul or Irbil.

...that IndyMedia moderators took down our comment on the ludicrous '6 Facts' that MigrationSquint posted. It's about time that someone took on these apologists for racism. So, for those of you who might want to see some of MigrationSquint's tosh put to the sword, here it is (Alan Green's 'facts' from memory):

Fact #1: Net immigration has quadrupled since 1997, now up to 237,000.
Response: The 237,000 figure quoted for net immigration (of people expected to enter or leave the country for a period of a year or more) is for 2007 and, given that the same statistic for 1997 was 47,000 (according to the National Statistics Office), that actually makes for a 5 fold incease, so you are under estimating. But why not chose 1998, when the figure for net immigration was 139,000, which means an increase of only 70% (i.e. the increase the single year 1997-98 was nearly 300%).

Fact #2: A migrant arrives nearly every minute.
Response: 237,000 divided by the number of minutes in a year = 2.2 every minute (yes the equivalent of a migrant arrives nearly every minute but a migrant leaves the country the equivalent of every 3 minutes).

Fact #3: A new house will need to be built every 6 minutes to house these migrants.
Response: Where does this figure come from? This is equivalent to 85,440 house a year. What set of assumptions have gone into this non-fact?

Fact #4: Britain is the second most overcrowded EU country (after Malta).
Response: On what factual basis can someone claim that a country is crowded? Do you mean population density? Been reading too many Optimum Population Trust press release again.

Monaco - 16,410
Gibralter - 5,119
Malta - 1,309
UK - 246
(inhabitants per square km)

Fact #5: Migration will add 7 million more people to the UK population over the next 20 years, equivalent to the size of Birmingham.
Response: 237,000 x 20 = 4,740,000 not 7,000,000. Maybe MigrationSquint must mean that those filthy foreigners will also have the audacity to breed as well. The influence of net migration on population numbers in the UK is actually at its lowest since 2003-04.

Fact #6: Some rubbish about having to cut immigration by 85% to maintain a UK population below 70 million.
Response: Oh dear, it's the Optimum Population Trust line again. Maybe we should just try culling a few of the feckless proles and social inadequates to keep the figure under the magic 70 million or prevent those bloody Northerners from coming down South?


Facts MigrationSquit didn't take in to account when twisting the figures to their ends:

In 2007 340,000 people emigrated and planned to remain out of the country for 12 months or more, half of those were non-UK citizens. 547,000 entered the country & planned to stay for a year or more, 13% of those were UK citizens and 18% were, for example, Poles. The actual increase in net immigration was down to the 17% decrease in long-term emigrants (those who planned to remain outside of the UK for 4 years or more).

These trends are set to decrease sharply in 2008 and 2009 as an awful lot of those 96,000 Poles (who no doubt were mostly classed as short-term 1-4 year immigrants anyway) will already have returned along with those forces out because of the lack of available jobs due to the so-called global financial crisis.

I'm sure we are all pretty uncomfortable seeing young, desperately poor people being thrown around by the police but I think there is a fundamental confusion of issues occurring here. These people are not asylum seekers they are economic migrants; a genuine asylum seeker in fear of his life does not need to come to the UK once s/he is safe in France or any other EU country.

By attempting to do so they move from being Asylum seekers to economic migrants. the two are different things and should not be confused.

In fact illegal economic migration has the effect of turning public opinion against those with a genuine need for asylum with the knock on effect of making aslyum much harder to claim. False asylum claims also have the effect of slowing down and overwhelming systems and charities established to process and assist asylum seekers.

I speak as one who has significant experience of the UK's very poor aslyum system and is married to somebody who left Yugoslavia for aslyum in Sweden.
I.P.Freely

Some pro-border scumbags have been posting on here criticising "economic migrants" as if that was a bad thing. Maybe they like living inside a giant prison, but some of us don't.

Why shouldn't people move around in search of a better place to live? People have done that ever since humans existed. People move around within countries in search of work or better conditions. Western countries have done it in the past by invading other countries and fucking them over.

Especially consider that many of the migrants are here because the UK and US have trashed their own countries either by military force or by economic means.

Border cops are the lowest form of scum there are, and I couldn't wish for a painful enough death for them.