Migrant Invasion Could See EVERY Port in Northern France Fenced Off at UK Taxpayers’ Expense

Every port in northern France could be fenced off to prevent Europe’s migrant invasion further spilling across the Channel – and British taxpayers will be left to foot the bill.

 

French police are so bewildered by the human influx that the only answer is to erect permanent concrete and barbed wire partitions to ring fence coastal towns that are seen as launching points for an attempted entry into Britain, according to UKIP MEP Mike Hookem.

 

Mr Hookem said the entire coastline of Normandy will need to be turned into a “fortress” to defend Britain’s borders as migrant smugglers increasingly target smaller ports with less security.

 

France has been reticent about shouldering the financial burden of securing its northern ports, with Britain shelling out £7 million towards state-of-the-art fencing around the port of Calais earlier this year and more UK money will be needed to complete the project.

 

Similar measures are required at nearby Dunkirk and Dieppe, with some Britain-bound illegal migrants travelling as far as Le Havre to breach porous security arrangements, according to Mr Hookem.

 

He told Express.co.uk: “Down in Calais it’s now known that they [the migrants] are moving towards Dieppe and Dunkirk because they are smaller ports with less security.

 

“The police chief in the area told me that he has just 60 officers investigating immigration crime in an area that stretches from the north coast of France right down to Paris.

 

“When we visited Calais there was new fencing which the port official was very pleased with. But it stretches for only 1.3km, which is nothing because the queues for lorry drivers can stretch back six or seven miles from the entrance to the port.”

 

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