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. Under the measures announced on Monday, British landlords who do
not remove illegal migrants, or who do not check their immigration status
before renting them a property, could be jailed for up to five years. 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.”
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