The bishops accuse it of shirking its moral responsibility, and using “unhelpful” rhetoric. A report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission says that people settling in Britain from overseas are much less likely to claim benefits or live in social housing than those already resident here.
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An alert had been put in place overnight after hundreds of migrants tried to enter the Eurotunnel terminal, Dufour said, but Haroun was nevertheless able to make his way toward England.
Dufour said that Eurotunnel was investigating how Haroun had entered the tunnel undetected, despite heightened security.
An intervention by the Bishop of Dover, the Rt Revd Trevor Willmott, made the front page of The Observer on Sunday.
“We are not on the march because we need to rest”.
With the crisis of migrants in Calais trying to smuggle their way across the Channel continuing to cause problems, a look at the economic importance of one of the UK’s major connections to continental Europe shows why stopping the flow of goods and vehicles is so hard.
“They are just concerned about UK security”.
The proposal has been discussed at the Government’s emergency Cobra meetings in what has been described as the “nuclear option”, the Daily Telegraph reported. The majority are fleeing conflicts, violence, persecution. A man who wields the power of life and death by ordering air strikes or giving arms to insurgent forces but who is reluctant to help people who have crossed thousands of miles in treacherous conditions. Some of them have been displaced several times because of wars in the Middle East. All of those camps are still small by comparison to the one hemmed in with barbed wire at Dadaab in Kenya, which has the dubious distinction of being home to the largest concentration of the world’s refugees, with 300,000 people living there, mainly Somalis and some Ethiopians.
The Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge, has called consistently on the Government to offer sanctuary to those facing persecution in Syria and Iraq (News, 5 December). The Treasury has promised £19 million in all. The 28-nation EU has a population of around 500 million and its governments are arguing about how to share out the “burden” of 40,000 asylum seekers, many of them highly skilled young men eager for work.
A BBC spokeswoman said: “Songs Of Praise is a magazine style programme”.
“People die every day, on the sea or in the desert, this is no different”, 19-year-old Mohamed from Sudan told news agency TT’s reporter at the migrant camp in Calais. Ships have been sent to search for survivors. Additional police costs for the first three weeks in July when the so-called migrant crisis heated up have been estimated at £700,000. The French are, with no great enthusiasm, trying to stop them.
Most of the 30 migrants are believed to have been intercepted by security staff shortly after the photographs were taken but it is unknown how long other would-be illegal immigrants have been gaining access to the site by similar means.
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While few would suggest opening borders completely there is no reason why the UK and Ireland can not take in a proportion of the displaced and desperate refugees. Nine have been killed in the last month. “The Italians and Greeks are blaming everyone else for not helping them”.
