Britain to put fences and sniffer dogs to tackle the influx of migrants through Calais

Britain is feeling the heat created by the influx of migrants into the country through Calais and Prime Minister David Cameron plans to have more fences and sniffer dogs to tackle the situation. This requirement is all the more important around the port of Calais after truckers, stopped by a strike, had to face hundreds of migrants who were trying to board their vehicles forcibly.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 24 June 2015.

Prime Minister has remarked that the scenes of chaos, which saw migrants breaking into the back of lorries or trying to climb into cabs, were "totally unacceptable". The lorries had been forced to queue around Calais since traffic across the Channel was disrupted by striking French ferry workers.
The installation of fencing would be not just around the port at Calais but also around the entrance to Eurostar and Eurotunnel.
The identification of the immigrants (fingerprinting and documenting) should be done in Italy where the migrants first land after a dangerous journey from North Africa. French authorities have already drafted extra police officers into Calais. Simultaneously, security was also stepped up in Dover to check vehicles as they arrived.
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Italian coastguard rescues 4200 migrants in 24 hours from 22 boats in the Mediterranean Sea

#ItalianCoastGuard #Libya #mediterraneansea #Syria In one of the largest rescues in recent days, the Italian coastguard has coordinated the rescue of about 4200 migrants based on distress signals from 22 boats sailing across the Mediterranean Sea. During the rescue, they discovered 17 corpses on three inflatable dinghies.
300 other migrants were rescued alive from the three inflatable dinghies where the 17 corpses were recovered. This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 30 May 2015.

The distress calls originated from 22 different boats, many of these were off Libya but some were off the southern Italian coast.
The rescue operations were led by the Italian coastguard and included the assistance of Italian, German and Irish naval ships that were working under the auspices of the EU's Frontex border agency. Migrants fleeing from the troubled locations in Syria, Libya have to be rescued on humanitarian grounds and taken care of till rehabilitation is arranged. Till now, more than 40,400 boat migrants have landed up in Italy since the start of the year.
On a rough estimate, the total number of migrants rescued in a period of 24 hours is believed to be one of the highest in recent years. The previous numbers were 3791 migrants on April 12 and 3690 on May 2.
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Migrants from Syria and Afghanistan have terrified holidaymakers in the Greek island of Kos

The Greek island of Kos is a popular tourist destination for British holidaymakers because of its package deals of cheap hotels. But, boat people from Syria and Afghanistan have encroached in the location and have left the tourists terrified.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 28 May 2015.

The tourists feel the invasion of these migrants have turned the Greek island into a 'disgusting' hellhole. Families had come to enjoy the summer sun, relax on sun loungers on the beach but their privacy has been shattered by the migrants who have set up camps and sleep on cardboard boxes with rubbish strewn everywhere.
The tourists are terrified as the penniless migrants, who have arrived in Greece to claim asylum, occupy positions outside their restaurant and watch them eat.
The migrants who have landed from countries like Afghanistan and Syria have taken shelter under arcades on the seafront in Kos town till such time they receive security clearance for onward travel to mainland Greece. Nearly 6,000 migrants have landed on the Dodecanese island of Kos in the past two months.
Those who possess smart phones and credit cards are staying in local hotels for 10-15 euros a night - while the rest are camped out on the harbor side and at a derelict hotel on the edge of Kos town. The straggly ones get down from the boats and walk straight through the town with backpacks on to join friends and register for their travel permits at the police station.
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Beijing migrants or Rat Tribes live in underground bunkers built by Mao

#undergroundbunkers #beijing #bombshelter The migrants in Beijing are known as Rat Tribe and they had moved into the city with dreams of making it big but, for these countryside-bred people, life in Beijing is not cheap. Hence, they have literally gone underground. They number nearly one million and have set up home in the underground bunkers that had been built by Mao as revealed in dailymail.co.uk dated 2 February 2015.
The bunkers had been built in 1969 under Chairman Mao's rule during the Cold War because there were fears of an imminent Soviet attack. Cities were accordingly ordered to prepare safety measures and that led to approximately 20,000 bomb shelters being dug.
Subsequently, after the death of Mao, and taking over by Deng Xiaoping, the defensive tactics were sidelined and resulted in the creation of innumerable underground bunkers. It turned out to be a labyrinth of caves.
These bunkers are located near the deserts of the north east and is a welcome environment for all seasons: cool in summer, warm in winter. Of course, while most of the people who live there want to move on to bigger and better things above the ground, the vast majority appears to be content as well as grateful.