Daily Express: MIGRANTS trying to sneak into Britain illegally from France are to be offered £1,700 of taxpayers’ money and a plane ticket to return home in a new scheme that is set to cost millions.
The plan, called the ‘Global Calais Scheme’, is the latest in a list of incentives – totalling £2,500 – to encourage the 2,000 migrants who try to board ferries and trains bound for the UK every night to go home.
Volunteers will each be handed the cash – a fortune in the world’s trouble spots – and a plane ticket home worth up to £800 at a new office soon to be opened in the busy port.
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Dailymail: Some still try to get through by clinging to the undercarriage of lorries. Others have been found hidden in ‘coffins’ – plastic containers with tiny air vents – close to death.
Either way, you can be certain of one thing: that when a truck stops on the now notorious Rue des Garennes on the outskirts of Calais, someone will emerge and attempt to get on board. Day or night.
So it was late on Wednesday afternoon when Mail photographer Will Leach trained his lens on an HGV stopping for petrol about 50 yards from his own car. An all-too-familiar scene was unfolding.
Some still try to get through by clinging to the undercarriage of lorries. Others have been found hidden in ‘coffins’ – plastic containers with tiny air vents – close to death.
Either way, you can be certain of one thing: that when a truck stops on the now notorious Rue des Garennes on the outskirts of Calais, someone will emerge and attempt to get on board. Day or night.
So it was late on Wednesday afternoon when Mail photographer Will Leach trained his lens on an HGV stopping for petrol about 50 yards from his own car. An all-too-familiar scene was unfolding.
Read more dailymail.co.uk
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