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The new centre “will find and disrupt organised criminals who attempt to smuggle migrants illegally into northern France and across the Channel by ensuring intelligence and enforcement work is more joined up and collaborative”, the Home Office said.

The centre will target the criminals who try to smuggle migrants into northern France and across the Channel, the Home Office said.

Europe’s interior and foreign ministers will meet in mid-October to discuss how to respond to the huge influx of migrants and refugees arriving at EU borders, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.

While France and Britain have tried to present a united front in tackling the crisis, the issue has strained ties between the two.

The political pressure is on, with Labour accusing Dave of being slow to react to the disruption in Calais, and urging him to demand compensation from France for hauliers, businesses and holidaymakers affected by the crisis.

French riot police sprayed migrants with chemical irritants after they tore down security fences at the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais on Saturday night.

Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the tunnel in recent weeks, trying to hop on freight trains or trucks destined for Britain.

Speaking about proposed ID cards for immigrants, he told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘I don’t think there is any doubt that most people in Calais are coming here for economic reasons. There are a few thousand of them in total, and only a fraction of those have...

The crisis has become a hot political issue on both sides of the Channel and British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande discussed the issue by phone.

BEARDSLEY: French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said today that he was sending police reinforcements to Calais.

The migrant crisis in the northern French port of Calais has hit the headlines in the past week, with people desperate to reach Britain making attempt after attempt to breach Eurotunnel (Paris: FR0010533075 – news) defences, some paying for it with their lives.

Mr Sutherland urged the UK to join the common European approach to the migrant issue, warning: “Anybody who thinks that by erecting borders or fences in some way a particular state can be protected from alleged “floods” – which are anything but floods...

A Sudanese man died on Wednesday as migrants desperate to enter Britain from France stormed the Channel Tunnel entrance and British ministers and security chiefs held an emergency meeting to try to tackle the growing crisis.

Drivers can be fined if their trucks are caught carrying illegal migrants, but according to BBC many don’t challenge the migrants because they fear violence.

Local police and tunnel security said hundreds of migrants had scaled fences around the Coquelles terminal in northern France and attempted to smuggle themselves on board vehicles.