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Monthly Archives: August 2015

#58 Migration Watch (2): For Theresa, UK Home Secretary

August 21, 2015

May you never lay your head down, face down in the wine-dark sea. May you never lay your head down in the hold.

You’re just like a great Big Brother to me, the Secretary for Sending Me Home. You’re just like a great Big Sister to me, the Minister for Beating Me Back.

So what would you, what would you have her do? Send in the clowns – a hand to hold instead of the strong arm of the state? Meanwhile, Britain’s home grown working class – feeling the pressure of the next wave, ‘white trash’ under fire from incoming – would be left out in the cold, presumably.

On 20 August UK Home Secretary Theresa May signed an agreement with French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve setting up a new centre from which to command joint operations to control migrants seeking to cross the Channel into England.

During a tour of the Eurotunnel site in Coquelles, Mrs May explained that the control and command centre will prioritise the relentless pursuit of people-smuggling gangs.

Her emphasis on trafficking may have been designed to draw attention away from the plight of the migrants themselves. Thousands are currently sleeping rough in a camp outside Calais known as The Jungle.

Many of the migrants making their way to Western Europe have already borne the brunt of civil war and economic collapse following the long wave of failed Western foreign policy interventions stretching from Africa to Afghanistan. Mrs May chose not to suggest that events which served to put migrants in the hands of ‘callous’ people smugglers, were often made in the West.

May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold.

May you never make your bed out in the cold.

(with apologies to John Martyn)

#57 Migration Watch (1): Anomalies

August 9, 2015

This is the male that walks the tunnel, crosses the Channel, caught on camera.
Arrested attempting a life left in peace.

Splayed against the wall, 40-year-old Sudanese migrant Abdul Rahman Haroun is desperate to stay out of the slipstream of yet another train thundering through at more than 100 mph.

After more than 10 hours in the tunnel, has he got used to this? Or would he crucify himself if only he had a hammer?

On 4 August Rahman Haroun was picked out by Eurotunnel’s monitoring system and recorded as an ‘anomaly’ in ‘interval 5’. Picked up and detained as he approached themouth of the tunnel on the Kent coast, currently remanded in custody he is due to appear at Canterbury Crown Court on 24 August charged with causing an obstruction under the Malicious Damage Act 1861.

This is a cat to catch the mice, gone in a trice down the hole.
And on to Merrie England where the streets are paved.

He can’t find it in himself to blame them – the French police officer deployed to catch migrants trying to make it from Calais to the UK.

He sleeps all day and wakes when they do. He too is away from home, encamped with brother officers in a tent city that mirrors the migrants’.

‘We’re all migrants, now,’ he quips, forgetting that the mirror is always shinier than thereal thing.

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