It said the Government was working closely with the French government to seek an urgent return of normal services and has increased security and border force operations at the port.
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The crisis has become a hot political issue on both sides of the Channel and Prime Minister David Cameron came under pressure for describing the people trying to get into Britain as a “swarm”.
As Lisa Doyle, head of advocacy for the Refugee Council puts it, the use of the word swarm was “dehumanizing” – migrants are not insects.
About 2,000 attempts were made to get to the tunnel on Monday, with a fraction of those – about 148 people – thought to have reached Britain.
Migrants pressing northward toward both countries are fleeing war, dictatorship and poverty in Africa and the Middle East. Migrants tend to spend as little time as possible in their southern European landing spots, like Italy, where two ships unloaded on Wednesday, one carrying 435 passengers and 14 bodies and another with 692 migrants.
Authorities arrested around 300 of the roughly 800-1,000 migrants estimated to be present at the site overnight.
“I haven’t had any migrants in the lorry”, he said.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian man is reported to have suffered serious burns after hitting an overhead power line as he attempted to get on to the roof of a Eurostar train in Paris.
But, the thing is, the migrants in Calais are not a big welfare absorbing conspiracy intent on snatching jobs, damaging infrastructure and compelling Nigel Farage to feel awkward on his train commutes. Let’s apply some logic here, do you really think people would try and cling to the underside of HGVs for twenty-six miles just so they can claim a modicum of welfare from the British taxpayer?
But a United National (UN) chief said it was “absolute nonsense” Britain is being threatened with an inasion of immigrants.
Police are facing another night of mayhem at the Eurotunnel after migrants trying to storm in caused fresh disruption in France. Even glancing through social media, I have seen the disgusting responses from users when reports of migrants trying to come to Britain are tweeted. Other countries make similar arguments: In May, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the migrants leaving her country were “fortune-seekers” and “mentally sick”.
It also suggested considering alternative routes for going to and from France.
Mohammad Al-Mohammad, 26, from Aleppo, Syria, said he had walked and hitchhiked from a refugee camp in Turkey, through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Austria and Italy before arriving in France three months ago.
The Conservative Party lawmaker for Folkestone in southern England, Damian Collins, said French authorities needed to better secure their side.
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On the situation in Calais, Mr Daynes said: “People are living in horrendous conditions, with whole families crammed into small tents with poor access to food and water, leading to all sorts of awful health problems”. These people, like I have said, are completely bereft of hope.
