{"id":1125288,"date":"2021-12-16T13:13:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125288"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:13:54","slug":"france-closes-border-to-uk-meanwhile-channel-migrant-crisis-rages-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-closes-border-to-uk-meanwhile-channel-migrant-crisis-rages-on\/","title":{"rendered":"France Closes Border to UK, Meanwhile Channel Migrant Crisis Rages On"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrance-closes-border-to-uk-meanwhile-channel-migrant-crisis-rages-on%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/migrants-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">From Saturday, December 18th, travellers from Britain to France will need \u201ccompelling reasons\u201d to enter the country, following the increase of Omicron cases in the UK, despite the UK scrapping its own \u2018Red List\u2019 of travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>French&nbsp;government spokesman Gabriel Attal<a href=\"https:\/\/rmc.bfmtv.com\/emission\/omicron-la-france-va-restreindre-l-acces-aux-voyageurs-en-provenance-du-royaume-uni-2052661.html\"> told<\/a>&nbsp;French media on Wednesday that France is going to take \u201cnew measures with the United Kingdom\u201d, which includes \u201ceven more drastic border controls\u201d, such as banning entry in most cases.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The government of France&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gouvernement.fr\/les-nouvelles-regles-pour-les-deplacements-entre-le-royaume-uni-et-la-france\">confirmed<\/a> in a statement that \u201cfrom this Saturday at midnight\u201d, travellers must have a \u201ccompelling reason to go to or come from the United Kingdom, for unvaccinated people as well as vaccinated people. Travel for tourism or professional reasons will not be allowed.\u201d However, French citizens, their spouses, and children will be exempt from the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Britain has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/11-countries-removed-from-the-uks-red-list\">cleared<\/a> its own Red List of countries involving the highest entry restrictions for travellers after the government concluded that the system had become \u201cless effective in slowing the incursion\u201d of the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>France imposing new border restrictions is somewhat ironic, given that the country has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/04\/france-says-non-to-british-proposals-to-end-channel-migrant-crisis\/\">persistently reluctant<\/a> to collaborate with the UK\u2019s request to work on a joint policy that would strengthen both Britain\u2019s and France\u2019s borders against illegal migration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron recently rejected a public <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1463973204456878080\">proposal <\/a>from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help stop the illegal Channel crossings, which included setting up \u201cjoint or reciprocal maritime patrols\u201d in both French and British waters.<\/p>\n<p>Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/14\/outgoing-uk-border-force-chief-says-borders-are-a-pain-in-the-bloody-a-report\/\">23,500<\/a>&nbsp;migrants have made the illegal crossing from France to Britain so far this year, with France doing little to stem the tide, even though Britain has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/07\/21\/uk-agrees-to-pay-france-55m-to-stop-boat-migrants\/\">paid tens of millions<\/a>&nbsp;of pounds to France to properly police their borders.<\/p>\n<p>Despite France\u2019s latest declaration of strengthening their border against British citizens, there have been no major movements to stop migrant crossings with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-kent-59245288\">almost 700<\/a> crossing in one day alone in November and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/12\/estimated-1000-illegal-migrants-cross-english-channel-new-daily-record\/\">record-breaking<\/a> 1,185 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/14\/outgoing-uk-border-force-chief-says-borders-are-a-pain-in-the-bloody-a-report\/\">another day<\/a> that month.<\/p>\n<p>France has also been accused of using its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/16\/farage-watched-french-warships-escort-migrants-british-waters-hour\/\">military vessels<\/a> to escort migrant boats into British waters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9354838709677\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Minister: Migrants Threatened To Throw Babies into English Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zZguPR7TTc\">https:\/\/t.co\/zZguPR7TTc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1465739150577991683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In recent weeks the steady stream of migrant arrivals has fallen off the front pages as the news media turns its attention again to the government\u2019s lockdowns. However, unofficial reports from local residents claim that the landings are still ongoing, according to accounts seen by Breitbart London.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of reporting follows the horrific revelation that a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/24\/dozens-dead-as-migrant-boat-capsizes-off-the-coast-of-calais\/\">killing<\/a> at least&nbsp;27 people off the coast of France, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/several-uk-bound-migrants-die-in-channel-off-calais\/\">including<\/a>&nbsp;five women and a young girl.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been claims that illegal migrants are unaware of how they are being smuggled into Britain and some are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/aug\/06\/refugees-tell-of-brutality-as-people-smuggling-across-channel-booms\">forced<\/a>&nbsp;by people smugglers onto unsafe inflatable dinghies and boats at knife or gunpoint following payment of around \u00a33,000.<\/p>\n<p>The British asylum system has been overwhelmed by the continuous influx of migrants and as a result, some of the facilities used to house illegal migrants have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/channel-migrants-still-held-in-inadequate-conditions-inspectors-find-12496563\">been branded<\/a> \u201cinadequate\u201d by prison inspectors.<\/p>\n<p>A migrant facility at&nbsp;Tug Haven in Kent was criticised for keeping migrant families in tents for over 24 hours while they were being processed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the inspector\u2019s report mentioned:&nbsp;\u201cInspectors were concerned by inadequate follow-up care for two women who said they had been raped and another who said she had been sold into domestic servitude\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Saturday, December 18th, travellers from Britain to France will need \u201ccompelling reasons\u201d to enter the country, following the increase of Omicron cases in the UK, despite the UK scrapping &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}