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    Question Germany stops dozens of migrants stowing away from Cuxhaven to Britain

    Is this the new Calais… in GERMANY? Dozens of migrants stopped by police as they try to sneak into Britain by hiding on cargo ships

    Dozens of migrants caught trying to get to Britain from Germany

    Migrants tried to hide in cargo ships in Cuxhaven, north Germany

    Migrants, all young men, are mostly from Albania and Kosovo


    By IAN DRURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 11:35 GMT, 20 May 2016 | UPDATED: 23:57 GMT, 20 May 2016

    Illegal immigrants have opened up a new route into Britain by stowing away on ships in northern Germany, it has been revealed.

    Scores of young men have been caught trying to smuggle themselves on to UK-bound ferries and freighters in the port town of Cuxhaven, near Hamburg.

    On Monday, three Albanians who had reached Immingham on Humberside were captured by border guards and placed on the next ferry back across the North Sea.


    Stowaways: Police in Cuxhaven have caught dozens of migrants, all young men, as they attempted to hide in
    the cargo of of freighters heading for the UK

    The influx comes amid warning that the east coast of England was vulnerable to illegal immigration because of multi-million-pound cuts to the UK Border Force. And it follows German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to let in more than a million migrants last year.

    Instead of claiming asylum and settling in Germany, increasing numbers are using it as a stepping stone to the UK. The German government admits it has lost track of 130,000 of them.



    Others are heading north following a security crackdown in Calais, where people smugglers have targeted thousands living in makeshift camps.

    Keith Vaz, Labour chairman of the Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee, said: ‘Focusing on the main problem areas such as Calais leaves the smaller ports without adequate protection against illegal migration.



    Cuxhaven is a port city in northern Germany from where several ferry services run to Britain

    This latest information is a serious worry. EU partners like Germany must do much more to stop the flow.

    ‘Encouraging people to come to Germany and then not processing them there shows an absence of planning and a lack of care.’

    Border staff in Cuxhaven have been monitoring the worsening situation since late last year.

    VOTE TO LEAVE 'IS DESERTION'

    Britain will be treated like a wartime deserter if it votes to leave the EU, Jean-Claude Juncker warned yesterday.

    The European Commission president said the EU ‘won’t be bending over backwards’ to help the UK cut a new trade deal if it votes for Brexit.

    The former Luxembourg PM told French newspaper Le Monde: ‘Deserters won’t be welcomed with open arms.

    ‘The UK will have to accept being considered a third party.’

    Police spokesman Holger Jureczko said young men, mostly from Albania and Kosovo, have repeatedly tried to scale the fence at the port and clamber aboard lorries bound for the UK.

    Police there have recorded 32 recent incidents involving 62 migrants.

    Cuxhaven runs cargo ships to Immingham and ferry services to Harwich in Essex.

    Home Secretary Theresa May is understood to have held discussions with the authorities in Belgium, Holland and Germany about the problem.

    A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We work with a range of domestic, European and international partners to develop a detailed picture of the routes being used by migrants attempting to enter the UK illegally.

    Where a credible threat is identified, we will take joint action.’


    New route: French riot police search a truck in the French port city of Calais, where thousands of refugees and
    economic migrants live in the 'Jungle' camp hoping to be able to get to the UK


    Migrants walk out of the 'Jungle' to reach the circular road to block trucks passing by in order to get inside and
    travel to Great Britain

    Is this the new Calais... in GERMANY? Dozens of migrants stopped by police as they try to sneak into Britain by hiding on cargo ships



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    Does anyone see a pattern. Most of these reports are about young men. Where are the women? They all deserting their sisters, wives, older people and children and leaving them in a war torn country that is supposed to be to dangerous to live in? Showing no concern, not staying to fight and protect them, just deserting all their family? Something is obviously wrong here.

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