MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The United Kingdom plans to build a 13-foot-high and 0.6-mile-long wall at France's Calais in response to the desperate situation in the so-called Jungle migrant camp, British Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said Tuesday.
"We are going to start building this big new wall very soon. We've done the fence, now we are doing a wall," Goodwill told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, as quoted by the Sky News broadcaster.
On Monday, two convoys of at least 40 trucks and tractors joined a demonstration slowing traffic at a major highway near Calais, protesting against the presence of the camp.
5 September 2016, 09:19 GMT
Since last year, Calais has served as the location of the Jungle, notorious for its dreadful living conditions. Thousands of migrants, many from the Middle East and North Africa, are living in the Jungle, located not far from the Channel Tunnel, in the hope of reaching the United Kingdom.
As of early August, there were more than 9,000 people residing in the Jungle camp, including 865 minors, of whom 676 were unaccompanied children.
