Britain
has announced new measures to tackle illegal migrants by forcing
landlords to evict them, as a growing number of migrants in Calais
continued their attempts to enter the UK via the undersea cross-channel
Eurotunnel.
The
move, announced by Greg Clark, Britain’s communities secretary, is set
to be included in a new immigration bill to be debated by the British
parliament in coming months.
Britain
also announced that another 100 guards would be placed on duty at the
tunnel’s terminal in Calais, while UK border officials were to begin
working inside the control room of the tunnel.
The migrants continued their attempts to cross the English channel via a freight train to Britain on Monday night.
Another
1,700 attempts were made by migrants in Calais to cross via the tunnel
overnight on Sunday, according to French police sources. The number of
people making the attempt was a major increase on the past few nights
when there were only a few hundred.
Al
Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from the Eurotunnel’s reinforced
fence in Calais, said the attempts continued “despite quite a heavy
police presence”.
“Migrants
at night try and hop over this fence and literally try to grab hold of a
train as it goes by in some instances. That’s why we’ve seen so many
deaths in recent months,” our correspondent said.
“The
French authorities have put in extra lighting, we just heard a
helicopter going over and there are police scattered around this area.”
By Aljazeera.com
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