Don't stop me now: The Calais 'Jungle' and No Borders Camp

French immigration minister Eric Besson has said he will clear the makeshift tents in Calais known as the 'jungle'. This report by Onyeka Igwe, reveals the true hell of the Calais 'jungle' and the incredible journeys migrants have made to get there. Besson claims clearing the 'jungle' is a humanitarian action, this is an incredible lie. It involves clearing people who have travelled thousands of miles, who have nowhere to sleep, are mainly young kids, who have no money, no papers and no family with them. Besson's disgraceful initiative to preserve UK border controls is guaranteed to provide further hell for the aspirant young migrants whose only crime is wanting to make a better life for themselves. Besson is not offering migrants accommodation but is promising repatriation. The charity WORLDwrite is demanding the British government immediately calls upon the French Government to stop the clearance and rounding up of migrants and lifts UK border controls to let migrants in to the UK.

Recommended links:

• Article by Patrick Hayes: Stop this rumble in 'the jungle'
• BBC article by Emma-Jane Kirby: France to close migrant 'jungle'
• Open Borders Calais website
• WORLDbytes volunteer Jessica Muddit''s photo essay: In Calais, solidarity with the sans papiers
• Video by John Domokos and Harriet Grant for the Guardian: Welcome to 'the jungle' where Afghan migrants fight disease and attacks outside Calais
• Spiked Open the Borders campaign
• WORLDwrite short film trailer: The More the Merrier