Britain, France ask EU nations to help with migrant crisis

Hammond made the announcement after chairing a 90-minute meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra committee in Whitehall.

“They both expressed concern about the immediate security challenges and reiterated their commitment to continue working closely together to tackle the problems posed by illegal migration”, a statement from Cameron’s office said.

Landlords will be expected to carry out regular checks on their tenants to ensure that they are not renting to illegal immigrants.

He drew widespread condemnation after he vowed last week that Britain would deport more illegal migrants, “so people know it’s not a safe haven”.

In a joint statement published by the British Telegraph newspaper and French Journal du Dimanche, the British Home Secretary Theresa May and her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve said that African migrants wrongly think the streets of Europe are paved with gold.

“Either way, their figures identify a transient migrant population”.

At around 2.00 am on Saturday some 150 migrants were escorted back towards Calais. A blacklist of “rogue landlords” and letting agents who are repeat offenders will also be created as part of the new measures, Communities Secretary Greg Clark said. We’ve said all along that this can only be achieved through the deployment of the French military in sufficient numbers to protect the trucks and escort them into the port and/or Eurotunnel”.

Over the weekend, the current Government announced plans to jail landlords who let properties to illegal immigrants as well as to take benefits away from failed asylum seekers. At present they are entitled to be housed and claim £36.95 a week. “We are not seeing that and we are not hearing it from the Prime Minister”, Mr Burnett said.

“Allowing more and more people into this country is going to deteriorate our system even more”.

The British government said it would fund a significant boost in the number of private security guards patrolling the French entrance to the under-sea rail link operated by Eurotunnel.

Policemen clash with demonstrators as people rally to support migrants trying to cross into England.

The new measures sent “a clear message”, according to Cazeneuve and May.

Questions have been raised about Britain’s response to the crisis, with some arguing the UK’s labour laws are to blame for the growing number of migrants trying to cross the Channel.

Xavier Bertrand, the main opponent to Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the next regional election, has attacked the UK government on the Calais crisis, arguing the British do not understand “the size and the gravity of the problem”. The United Kingdom should change its policy or move its border.

Last year Sweden accepted 30,000 asylum seekers compared to the UK’s 10,000.