Images show how the Calais migrant camp has sprawled to the size of a small town that is now home to some 5,000 refugees

Europe and the Migrant Wars

Perhaps the only historical precedent to the migratory war from Africa and the Middle East is the migration westward of various peoples fleeing the depredations of the Huns in the 4th and 5thcenturies A.D. That did not end well for then-Roman Europe, ushering in centuries accurately termed the Dark Ages. But there is a difference now. Today many governments welcomed the migrants (at least at first) and did not really try to repel them; and this time, if Europe fails to recover its balance and expel the migrants, there will not be any Renaissance to recover from the New Dark Ages that will inevitably ensue.

The Migrant Crisis

The broad details of the migrant crisis are well enough known not to require elaboration here, but there are some often overlooked nuances that do. To speak of “refugees” and “migrants” interchangeably is both deceptive and wrong.There are in fact three distinct categories of these immigrants, although all three are not found in all countries. One (and potentially if not actually the most stable) are those who either came from former colonies (Britain and France stand out here) or were deliberately brought in as workers (the largely Turkish Gastarbeiter in Germany come to mind), who have been in residence for generations, often hold citizenship, and for whom finding work and a home have traditionally been important for many.

Another are migrants, largely single males from Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Middle East, principally arriving because of a fascinating collusion between human traffickers and NGOs. Most of these evince little interest in making stable homes and finding work, and appear to want only welfare and women – not necessarily in that order. And the last are the genuine refugees fleeing war. These include both single males and family groups, largely from the Middle East (Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea and Somalia stand out), virtually all from countries that have been shattered by US and European armed forces for no better reason than that they were on Israel’s list of enemies – a list that includes Iran, the only one not yet openly attacked.

The initial response from the EU and individual European countries varied widely. The politicrats of the EU in general have been strongly supportive of opening borders and welcoming migrants and refugees. Some European countries such as Sweden and Germany have been especially welcoming, while others – such as the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic) have been hostile to the idea – often in the face of extreme hostility from the EU itself. And the responses of still others fell between the two extremes, in some cases such as Italy and now Slovenia simply being in the forefront of the migration path.

It quickly became apparent that however welcoming governments might be, the arrival of growing numbers of migrants – perhaps as many as 75% of whom are single males of military age – did not exactly usher in a period of peace and tranquility within any country from Britain across the Continent that accepted them. Migrants and refugees alike professed a desire for a better life, but they brought with them epidemics of crime – including riot and rape – the establishment of what are euphemistically called “no-go zones” which even police enter at their peril – and urban decay. This ought not to surprise anyone, since the migrants themselves are the principal reason their home countries are what President Trump ungraciously but accurately called “shitholes,” and there was and is no reason to expect them to act differently in Europe. But it is a strange way for people seeking succor to treat places that genuinely if unadvisedly welcomed them.

Not surprisingly, the public response across Europe has largely been far less enthusiastic than that of the EU or the national governments that initially welcomed these migrants and refugees. Movements of varying size and activism have arisen in most countries where migrants have taken root. Germany in particular has the “#120db” movement started by women and girls who see their government victimizing them for the sake of the migrants, as portrayed in a chilling video:

The Widerstand Deutschland also has support, while a political party – the Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) rode a strongly anti-migrant stance to become the third largest party in Germany in the last elections. And the Visegrad Group, the Baltic states and even Russia – seeing what has been happening from Britain to Germany and from Italy to Sweden – have dug in their heels in opposition to anything even hinting at policies or practices to bring Middle Eastern and African migrants or refugees into their societies. They clearly consider the presence of growing numbers of such people as hostile to both public order and their own cultures – and they are correct.

In the face of growing public opposition, the EU has demonstrated the truth of the maxim that a fanatic is someone who redoubles their efforts when they have lost sight of their original goals, reaffirming their commitment to make places for these migrants and pressuring countries that refuse to take them in. National governments facing elections have had a more varied response. Indeed, many liberal/socialist governments in Europe have made some accommodation to the rising unhappiness of their electorates with the migrant problem. But these are merely tactical accommodations, and do not represent a fundamental reorientation of strategy. As existing migrant/refugee populations grow in size and voting strength, expect them all to gradually resume their “open borders – migrants welcome” approach.

But What Does it Mean?

At a minimum, the presence of large numbers of these migrants in any European country means internal disorder, growing criminality and a clash of cultures that will increasingly compromise the indigenous European cultures. These are not simply abstractions. None of the Sub-Saharan countries nor the more primitive of the Middle Eastern societies (e.g. Afghanistan) have any common cultural traditions with modern Europe – concepts such as participatory democracy, women’s rights, and the rule of law are simply alien to them. To call them “backward” – however politically incorrect it may be – is at best an understatement, and the implications of that for Europe proper cannot be casually dismissed.

In a sense, Europe is entering a phase similar to that in which the US is mired. Both the US and Europe have, or have evolved, minority groups that do not share the values of the dominant culture. In the US, it is principally African-Americans and secondarily some Latinos; in Europe it is principally the residue of the assorted colonial empires, largely from Africa (including North Africa) and South Asia. Both the US and Europe also have new arrivals, legal or otherwise, largely Latinos from Mexico and Central America in the case of the US and refugees or migrants in the case of Europe, the former principally from the Middle East and the latter largely from Africa.

In all cases, there are certainly people from those minority groups who are good citizens and good neighbors, but at least in the US the larger part of those minority groups are neither, committing a disproportionate number of crimes, largely dependent on welfare, and blighting neighborhoods and cities where they predominate numerically. These pictures, of Detroit (top) and Baltimore (bottom), give an all too stark image of the consequences of this development – something those of us in the early civil rights movement never anticipated. There remain good areas in these cities, but the blight predominates:

Figure 1 – Detroit

Figure 2 – Baltimore

This is the future that awaits Europe if you let the migrant invasion succeed. We in the US never expected it. I doubt any of your political leaders anticipated what the influx of migrants would produce. In both the US and Europe, the media largely refuse to confront these realities – it runs too counter to their preferred political narrative. The difference is that in the US, it is politically impossible for any politician of any party to speak bluntly about the situation and what must be done to deal with it – recognizing that there are no longer any positive solutions, only punitive ones. In the case of Europe, it is difficult or impossible for most elected governments to do likewise – but political and other alternatives still exist there. Europe facing its Migrant War has better prospects than the US confronting its own minority morass.

Riposte: The Political Dimension

No reassessment of Europe’s prospects in the Migrant War can escape a critical look at the EU apparatus. It is not that the EU itself is necessarily a bad idea in the political dimension. It is that the EU policy on migrants and refugees is incompatible with the stated goals of the EU for 

Europe, and undermines the viability of the member states themselves. The states in the Visegrad Alliance (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) appear to understand this, and as a consequence are having little or nothing to do with what the EU wants on this issue. So, too, must the rest of Europe – and it should stand ready to assist smaller countries such as Slovenia facing their own migrant invasion.

The multi-racial, multicultural agenda being pressed by EU politicrats is a prescription for disaster, as is its analog in the US. What possible advantages accrue to any European country (or to the US, for that matter) from admitting and giving residence to large numbers of migrants and refugees, or empowering existing minorities, whose cultures are largely hostile to the values of Western civilization? What that agenda is cannot be ignored – it is less multi-racial than uni-directionally racial, emphasizing the mixing of white females with African (and occasionally Middle Eastern) males but not white males with the others. What is not so clear is why the political Left in Europe and in the US is pushing an agenda that can only undermine the existing cultures there, without which those countries fail.

Further, the migrant issue needs to be treated not as a matter of immigration, relief and social justice, but as a security matter requiring a firm, collective response – no matter how much the EU as it is currently constituted might object. Multinational forces are the key here, since some countries bear the brunt of the migrant invasion. For example, intercepting incoming boats/ships with migrants requires a consistent procedure: warn 5km from territorial waters, warn a second time at 1km from territorial waters if the vessel holds to its course, warn a final time if or when the vessel crosses into territorial waters, then at 1km inside territorial waters sink the vessel. I doubt it will have to be done more than once – no matter what NGOs or well-heeled individuals are willing to pay, ship captains and crews will not take the pay and the job if it means their own lives.

Third, many of the genuine refugees from the Middle East have been driven to Europe by American-led, Israeli-instigated wars that have devastated their homelands. Europeans can empathize with their plight without feeling or being compelled to be victimized by them. None of these Middle East wars have been in Europe’s interest, none of the countries attacked have actually threatened the security of any European country, and ending any involvement in them, or endorsement for them, would be a good first step for every country in Europe to take.

Fourth, it needs to be understood that no country in Europe can be permitted to have a policy of open borders and more or less unrestricted acceptance of migrants. This is because if Europe as a whole permits this cancer to take root anywhere, it will inevitably eventually spread to infect other countries. The Visegrad countries, for example, have this mostly right (no pun intended), but it won’t help them much if (e.g.) Germany goes under. Put bluntly, no country in Europe can survive three or four more years of pro-migrant governments without collapsing beyond any hope of recovery. This is understood in some places but not in all, as elections last year demonstrated. All Europe needs to treat the migrant invasion like a gangrenous wound – heal if possible, amputate if healing is infeasible.

Fifth, multinational naval and military forces – not necessarily under either the EU or NATO – are the way to go, and with luck, many countries will see such cooperation to be in their own self-interest. Focusing initially on one country within Europe and one maritime theater along Europe’s periphery would be prudent, allowing greater concentration of forces and effort than attempting to implement a military and naval solution everywhere at once. The leaders of the Bundeswehr,for instance, ought not to be too proud to ask for military assistance from their neighbors to the East who have largely foregone the West’s migrant-refugee dementia. Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Russia – yes, even Russia – might help. Not out of altruism, but with the knowledge that the internal collapse of Western Europe and especially Germany will inevitably have grave consequences for them, too. WWII is over. So is the Cold War, except, perhaps, in the minds of some Americans. But the Migrant War is here and now – it merits a collective response which the EU is too spineless politically to provide.

Similarly, a small multinational naval force with a warship or two from each of several countries (much like the old Standing Naval Force Atlantic of Cold War days) deployed in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas could stop seaborne migrants dead in their tracks – both literally and figuratively. But make no mistake about it: once deployed, the forces would have to act decisively or the response would collapse utterly. Half-measures are worse than useless in such a venture.

And more than a few migrants are deeply involved in organized crime, especially drugs and prostitution. Fine. Almost every European country has some excellent special forces units. Let them go against the organized criminal elements and kill them, while the regular armed forces crush riots, help police incarcerate or kill the rapists, and excise the migrant rot.

Europe: Ruthless or Ruined

So let us summarize what needs to be done:

1. Either remake the EU directorship or disregard its dictates on these matters. Whatever its other (and somewhat problematic) value in other areas, on this set of issues the EU as it is currently constituted is a major part of the problem and no part at all of any practical solution to it. If it mandates quotas, disregard them. If it dictates fines for non-compliance, do not pay them. If it issues formal rebukes, ignore them. And if the EU attempts anything else, replacing its leadership or leaving the EU itself are always options.
2. The removal from office of any European government that supports open borders and/or the 
   
   continued influx of migrants, and/or refuses to deport those migrants already in place, by any and all means necessary, including a military coup d’etat or popular revolution if normal political processes fail. This should start with the removal from office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government – I expect the women of Germany could do that even without the support of the Bundeswehr. But however it is accomplished in Germany, once it is done, like-minded people in other countries will get the message – and so will their current governments.
3. Redefine the migrant issue as a security and not an immigration problem, and its resolution as a military matter and not a police or social matter. Closing borders to migrants and intercepting any vessels attempting to land migrants in any European country, sinking those vessels if necessary. Multinational naval, air and land forces should be used whenever possible. This should be complemented with the deportation – voluntary if possible, forcible if not – of existing migrants from all European countries, including the elimination of current migrant enclaves and the “no-go” zones.

Are my prescriptions ruthless? Yes. Are they necessary? Yes, IF Europe in general and Germany in particular wish to avoid an otherwise inevitable descent into chaos and the concurrent gutting of their civilization and culture. No one in their right minds ought to want to see Berlin and Hamburg and other European cities go the way of Detroit and Baltimore and so many other American cities – which is what will happen if the migrant invasion is not turned back and excised from European societies. The Left in general and the world press in particular will hate you and vilify you as racists and fascists for acting decisively. But you will save Europe, and particularly Germany – the linchpin without which Europe falls.

Europe collectively and especially Germany are at a crossroads now, and whichever path they take will be inexorably final. They can be ruthless now and recover what they had before the migrant invasion occurred, or they can be restrained now and ruined forever. Choose wisely – and then strike back hard and fast.

'Send gunboats to the Mediterranean': Australian PM warns Europe crisis will not stop until it copies tough stance on people-smugglers Tony Abbott insists tough line on migrants is the only way to stop deaths Said army should be deployed to prevent asylum seekers arriving on land He has ordered Australian military to turn back boats carrying migrants Controversial move has seen near-daily arrivals fall significantly, with no reported deaths at sea off the coast of Australia so far this year Europe has been urged to copy Australia's military-led 'stop the boats' policy to avoid migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean. Australian PM Tony Abbott – who sends naval gunboats to turn back asylum seekers before they reach Australia – said the EU should 'urgently' follow his lead. His hardline policy has proved controversial but Mr Abbott said it was the only way to prevent disasters such as the loss of 900 lives when a fishing boat capsized on Saturday night. +11 Hardline: Tony Abbott, whose conservative government introduced a military-led operation to turn back boats carrying asylum-seekers before they reach Australia, said harsh measures are the only way to stop deaths +11 +11 Haunted: Surviving immigrants who escaped the boat that capsized in the Mediterranean Sea killing up to 900 people appear deep in thought as they arrive in the Sicilian port city of Catania yesterday morning +11 Solemn: A young man, bows his head as he makes the short walk from the rescue boat's deck to the Catania shore where hundreds of people had gathered +11 New life: Members of the Italian Police look on as a migrant who survived the ship sinking off the coast of Libya walks the ramp of an Italian Coast Guard's vessel upon arrival at Catania's port yesterday morning He said: 'The only way you can stop the deaths is to stop the boats. 'That's why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people-smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.' Conservative Mr Abbott won power in 2013 on a 'stop the boats' pledge, and not a single one has breached his ring of steel in 18 months. Operation Sovereign Borders involves the Australian Navy intercepting boats filled with migrants at sea, and either turning them back or towing them back to where they came from. Mr Abbott has previously said he was sick of being lectured to by the United Nations over Australia's obligations to refugees, saying his policy was the 'most decent, most compassionate' solution. In the Mediterranean, callous people smugglers have been exploiting a willingness by European nations to rescue migrants rather than send them back. Last year, Italy scaled back its rescue operations because it feared they were only encouraging migrants to gamble with their lives. But the horrific loss of life over the past week in a spate of migrant shipwrecks has prompted calls to urgently reinstate the rescue missions. EU leaders including David Cameron are meeting tomorrow in what charities are calling a 'life or death' summit to solve the problem. Save the Children warned that 2,500 youngsters could die in the Mediterranean this year. Chief executive Justin Forsyth said: 'EU leaders hold the lives of thousands of desperate people in their hands when they meet. 'With every day that they prevaricate and delay restarting search and rescue operations, the risk grows that more people will die.' +11 Taken to safety: An unknown survivor of the Mediterranean migrant tragedy is wheeled off an Italian coastguard ship in the Sicilian city of Catania +11 Horror: A man carries the body of a dead child onto the Greek island of Rhodes after a boat carrying dozens of people ran aground, killing at least three in one of a number of tragedies involving migrants in recent days +11 Chaos: Video footage shows a large, wooden double-masted boat with people packed on board, just metres away from the Greek island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea Lucky rescue for migrants stranded on rock at sea in Turkey AUSTRALIA'S HARDLINE POLICY Migrant boats approaching Australian waters are turned back by the Navy or sometimes even towed back to where they came from. Any vessels which manage to get close are taken under naval escort to the Pacific islands of Nauru or Papua New Guinea, where they are detained while migrants' asylum claims are processed. Migrants are then matched with a country that will resettle them. Those detained on Nauru are sent to Cambodia, which is paid to take them by the Australian government. A similar arrangement exists with Papua New Guinea for those detained there. Any migrants who actually make it to Australia by sea are automatically blocked from staying – even if they are found to be genuine refugees. The controversial scheme – which began 18 months ago has been attacked by human rights advocates who say it violates Australia's international obligations. However the government says it has greatly reduced the number of illegal immigrants arriving on Australian shores. Yesterday Mr Cameron pledged the UK would 'make a contribution' to search and rescue operations. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said refugees also needed to be persuaded to stay in their home countries in the first place. 'We've got to start in the upstream countries. We've got to deal with the traffickers,' he said, adding he 'absolutely' supported a 'more formidable operation on the sea'. Ed Miliband said the Government's policy of 'leaving people to drown' had been 'wrong'. The Labour leader said: 'Frankly I think it is a stain on Europe to have these things happening. 'We've got to act on search and rescue, and that is about basic humanity and I think that people all around the country will recognise this.' London Mayor Boris Johnson said Britain had a 'moral duty' to do more. 'I think it is an absolute tragedy and obviously we must do whatever we can to help the humanitarian response,' he said. One of the architects of Australia's tough border policies, retired Army Major-General Jim Molan, said European leaders were guilty of 'incompetence'. Mr Molan said the tragedies were 'worsened by Europe's refusal to learn from its own mistakes and from the efforts of others who have handled similar problems'. In the Mediterranean, the tide of human misery has only worsened. Saturday's disaster was the most catastrophic in a series of migrant shipwrecks that have claimed more than 1,700 lives this year – 30 times higher than the same period in 2014. In the past week alone, more than 1,000 have died. Border chiefs have warned that one million migrants are waiting to set sail off the coast of Libya, with the need for drastic action to address the crisis greater than ever before. Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has warned of a 'genocide' and said: 'Europe will be judged harshly for its inaction.' +11 +11 Rescue: A woman is laid to the ground after being rescued by Greek men as she tried to reach Europe aboard a wooden boat which ran aground on the island of Rhodes, killing three people +11 Saved: Three people died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants ran aground on the Greek island of Rhodes Infra-red camera shows rescuers trying to locate survivors UP TO 1,000 FEARED DEAD AFTER WEEKEND OF WORST MARITIME DISASTERS FOR DECADES Sunday morning: Italian coastguard responds to migrant ship after it capsizes off the coast of Libya with 700 passengers unaccounted for Sunday afternoon: Passengers accounts of the ship say as many as 950 people may have been on board with 300 locked in the hull. Another boat is rescued off Sicily carrying 100 Syrian refugees. They are all brought to safety Monday morning: A boat runs aground on the Greek holiday island of Rhodes killing a man, woman and child Monday afternoon: Italian and Milanese coastguards respond to two distress calls off the coast of Libya from boats thought to be carrying up to 400 people. EU heads of state call for urgent action to ease the migrant crisis with an emergency summit called for later in the week Monday at midnight: The surviving passengers of the Libyan boat arrive in Catania, Sicily. Among them is the crew's Tunisian captain and his Syrian crew member. Both were arrested and charged with 'favouring illegal immigration'. The captain was additionally charged with multiple manslaughter.   Australia begins controversial policy of processing asylum seekers AT SEA: New rules mean migrants are dealt with without ever setting foot on land A group of Vietnamese asylum seekers sailing to Australia were rejected before they had even reached land - thanks to a new immigation policy Down Under. But the screening of immigrants while they were at sea was condemned by the United Nations, which said they should be properly assessed on land. Until now, Australia has forced boat migrants to live in detention centres across the Pacific in Nauru and Papua New Guinea while their claims are processed. Scroll down for video +4 The Australian navy ship HMAS Choules transported the Vietnamese immigrants back to Vietnam this month The latest policy of not allowing migrants to disembark anywhere came to light a day after Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Europe to adopt his tough immigration policies. He claimed these would stop the boat-loads of migrants currently making their way across the Mediterranean from Africa. According to the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, the group of 46 Vietnamese migrants set sail to Australia in March. They were detected by the Australian navy earlier this month and assessed at sea. All of them were rejected and transported back to Vietnam on the navy's landing vessel HMAS Choules. The two-week mission by the navy vessel, pictured in Sydney harbour last year, is thought to have cost £1.5m The migrants were offloaded in the port city of Vung Tau, south of Ho Chi Minh City, last Friday, according to Australia's ABC News. The two-week mission by HMAS Choules is said to have cost the navy around £1.5million.  The Australian government today refused to comment on 'operation matters'. But the Opposition accused Mr Abbott's Liberal Party of a 'new low' with regards to the secrecy surrounding what happens to asylum seekers. +4 Boat migrants found and rescued in the Mediterranean yesterday are taken to the Italian port of Salerno by an Italian navy ship (pictured). So far this week the crossing has claimed the lives of 1,700 asylum seekers +4 Rescued migrants picked up by another Italian navy ship yesterday line up after disembarking in Sicily +4 Tough stance: Australia's PM Tony Abbott this week The operation was also criticised by UNHCR. Its spokeswoman Vivian Tan said: 'We're concerned that people may not have had access to proper procedures. 'We are concerned that the group wasn't screened and assessed in a way that's fair and effective, that somehow their lives may be at risk.' And Phil Robertson of the international campaign group Human Rights Watch echoed those concerns, saying: 'I think that probably these people had no access to counsel or [were not] able to prepare their case. 'And certainly they had no access to appeal.' Yesterday Mr Abbott lectured Europe on how to deal with the migrant-boat crisis in the Mediterranean. This week alone, the perilous crossing from Africa has claimed 1,700 lives. The captain of one boat, Mohammed Ali Malek, 27, was charged with multiple manslaughter after his vessel capsized on Monday, claiming the lives of up to 900 people. Yesterday new images were released of Italian navy vessels rescuing more asylum seekers and taking them to Italian ports. Mr Abbott told European leaders on Tuesday: 'The only way you can stop the deaths is to stop the boats.' He won power in 2013 on his pledge to stop immigrants entering Australia by sea. Their vessels are now turned away or towed back - and occupants are sent to the Pacific detention centres. There is also a guarantee that they will never be able to live in Australia. In the last 18 months, not a single boat has breached the country's ring of steel. 'They will only see Italy on a postcard': Country's interior minister refuses to let rescue ship carrying 224 migrants dock, a week after turning away vessel with 630 people on board Matteo Salvini denied entry to the 224 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean He said German NGO Mission Lifeline had been told to leave the rescue to Libya  Hard-line minister Salvini said the migrants would 'only see Italy on a postcard'  The Aquarius travelled 932 miles to Spain after Italy and Malta denied it entry  Italy's hard-line interior minister has refused to let a rescue boat with 224 migrants on board dock in Italy, saying those on board 'will only see Italy on a postcard'.  Matteo Salvini's latest move to clamp down on arrivals from the Mediterranean comes a week after he turned away another foreign ship, the Aquarius, which was carrying 630 migrants and had to reroute to Spain. Salvini said the latest ship, operated by German aid group Mission Lifeline, had loaded the migrants in Libyan waters against the instructions of Italy's coast guard. The interior minister, who is urging Malta to take in the ship as he pressures European partners to share the burden, added that the migrants 'will only see Italy on a postcard'. Mission Lifeline denied Salvini's claims, saying it conducted the rescue in international waters and asked for a safe port, which had not been assigned. +15 The Mission Lifeline rescue boat, pictured yesterday, was carrying 224 migrants but was refused port in Italy by the country's hard-line interior minister Matteo Salvini +15 Migrants on board the rescue boat operated by the German NGO Mission Lifeline yesterday Salvini said: 'For the safety of the crew and those rescued we humanly and politically ask Malta to finally open one of its ports, and then seize the ship and its crew.'  He said: 'Italian ports are no longer at the disposal of traffickers. Open the Maltese ports! Open the French ports. 'We cannot take in one more person. On the contrary: We want to send away a few.'   The Aquarius, operated by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, took the migrants to Spain, travelling an additional 932 miles, after Italy and Malta refused to let them land. Salvini has likened such rescue ships to taxi services that finish the job for migrant smugglers.   He also has pointed out the failure of other European Union nations to take their share of migrants headed for Europe, a point that Italy will press in forthcoming EU meetings.   Salvini has threatened that Italy will withhold its payments to the EU if it does not get more help on the migrant issue.  Italy's transport minister, Danilo Toninelli, said the Lifeline remained in Libyan waters and would be seized by Italian authorities if it arrived in Italy.  +15 Matteo Salvini (pictured) is leading Italian efforts to reduce arrivals from African migrants  Italian ship arrives in Spain carrying 630 migrants from Africa Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% 0:16 Previous Play Skip Unmute Current Time 0:16 / Duration Time 1:20 Fullscreen Need Text SHARE THIS MORE VIDEOS African migrants celebrate after finally docking in Spain Young woman receives death threats over Instagram video Hilarious moment girl takes home dog after night out EDL founder Tommy Robinson arrested by police… +15 A Libyan coast guard vessel is seen next to the Mission Lifeline rescue boat yesterday  Salvini: The EU could collapse within a year  Matteo Salvini has questioned whether the deeply divided EU will survive the events of the coming year. 'Within a year it will be decided whether there will still be a united Europe or not,' Salvini told German news weekly Der Spiegel. It will become clear in EU budget talks and ahead of 2019 European elections 'whether the whole thing has become meaningless', he said. The new populist government in Rome accuses fellow EU members of abandoning Italy as it tries to cope with migrants making the perilous journey from Africa across the Mediterranean. 'We cannot take in one more person,' the German magazine quoted Salvini as saying. 'On the contrary: we want to send away a few.' German Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing domestic pressure on immigration, is seeking deals to send back to Italy and other frontline countries arriving asylum seekers already registered there. Salvini, asked whether his stance could contribute to toppling Merkel, said that this was not his intention, even though Rome and Berlin were also 'far apart' on other issues, from bank reform to Germany's huge trade surplus.  Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, has been leading efforts to reduce arrivals from migrants rescued in the Mediterranean.  Some 640,000 migrants have landed in Italy since 2014. The numbers are down dramatically this year, to some 14,500, more than 80 per cent lower than in 2017.   An SWG poll this week showed two-thirds of Italians agree humanitarian boats should not be allowed in the country's ports. But off the Libyan coast, where people smugglers operate with impunity, the U.N. refugee agency said an estimated 220 migrants drowned this week.   The ship's current position was not clear. The group said in a statement: 'Mission Lifeline fears that a similar situation to the Aquarius ... could be on the horizon.' 'Therefore the NGO calls on the competent authorities to swiftly react to their obligation to designate a place of safety.' A source close to the Maltese government said that Valetta had not yet received any official request from Rome, nor had Lifeline itself sought any permission to land.  Spokesman Axel Steier said that the condition of the migrants was 'OK,' but said migrants coming from Libya typically faced 'torture, rapes, slavery'. He said the passengers need protection and that the group was looking for a safe port 'such as Lampedusa or Pozzallo', both in Sicily. 'We never were in Libyan waters,' he said.  +15 A migrant child is rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the German NGO Mission Lifeline African migrants celebrate after finally docking in Spain Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% 0:00 Previous Play Skip Mute Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 0:24 Fullscreen Need Text +15 Migrants on board the Lifeline, the Dutch-flagged vessel turned away by Italy's government  +15 The vessel Lifeline belonging to the German NGO pictured in the Mediterranean yesterday  Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said today his country was ready to start turning away migrants if Berlin and Vienna do so, as Germany's interior minister proposed earlier this week. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer warned on Monday that he would give German Chancellor Angela Merkel a fortnight to find a European deal to curb new arrivals by a June 28-29 EU summit, failing which he vowed to order border police to turn back migrants. 'We can expect that Austria will take the same measure and in that case, we'll do the same thing,' Babis told reporters.   Merkel said today: 'The meeting on Sunday is a consultation and working meeting at which there will be no concluding statement.'  'It is an initial exchange with interested member states.' She said conditions in Syria were not yet right for refugees to return. Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrians and others since 2014, and migration policy is threatening her ruling coalition.  Italy also took offence on Friday when French President Emmanuel Macron likened rising nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment in Europe to 'leprosy'. 'One day, he's saying that he doesn't want to offend Italy, and then the next, he's talking about leprosy,' said Italy's other deputy prime minister and head of the populist M5S party, Luigi Di Maio. Salvini said: 'We may be leper populists. But I take the lessons from those who open their own ports. Welcome thousands of migrants and then we can talk.' +15 German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Lebanese and Syrian refugees in Beirut today where she said this weekend's meeting of EU leaders would not produce final results  +15 Angela Merkel hands out Germany football shirts to displaced students in Beirut today  Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's refugee and migrant rights director said: 'European governments are once more revealing where their true priorities lie: namely shutting off the central Mediterranean route, with scant regard to the suffering caused. 'Europe's first responsibility should be to ensure that the women, men and children who are escaping violence, torture and exploitation in Libya and are in danger at sea are rescued, and brought safely to land.  'This month has already seen 233 lives lost in the central Mediterranean. The urgent need for coordinated and collective search and rescue efforts, including the vital contribution of NGO charity ships, remains as important as ever.'   In March, a boat operated by the Spanish aid group Open Arms was impounded after NGO workers refused to hand over migrants to the Libyan coastguard, instead delivering them to the Italian island of Sicily. Last year, the Iuventa, chartered by German NGO Jugend Rettet, was also seized.   Salvini also sparked outrage on Monday when he promised a head count of Italy's Roma community and to throw out those without legal status. His call was blasted as unconstitutional by rights groups and even criticised by members of his own coalition government, with some in Italy drawing parallels with measures targeting Jews under fascist wartime leader Benito Mussolini.    +15 The migrants are picked up in the Mediterranean sea before they are taken to the Lifeline boat +15 A Libyan coast guard boat is seen next to the Mission Lifeline rescue boat in the Mediterranean +15 The Aquarius was carrying 630 migrants but had to take them to Spain, travelling an additional 932 miles, after Italy and Malta refused to let them land (file photo) Migrants in cramped conditions on Aquarius off coast of Italy Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% 0:00 Previous Play Skip Mute Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 1:05 Fullscreen Need Text Italy's new far-right interior minister: League leader Matteo Salvini cracks down on migrants With his 'Italians first' rallying cry and his tub-thumping against Islam and a 'migrant invasion', Matteo Salvini has rebranded himself and his party to become both interior minister and joint deputy prime minister.   As leader of the right-wing League, the 45-year-old's new job allows him to focus on the chief aspects of his election campaign - stopping illegal immigration and deporting those who have already arrived. Salvini was sworn in as interior minister after striking a last-gasp deal to form a government with the Five Star Movement, an agreement that brought Italy a populist government after nearly three months of post-electoral deadlock. He took control of the right-wing coalition that won the most votes in March's election when his League party surpassed ally Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. +15 Far-right League leader Matteo Salvini (pictured) was named interior minister after his party struck a deal to form a government with the populist Five Star Movement Since taking over the old Northern League in 2013, Salvini has ridden a wave of public discontent, playing on anti-immigrant sentiment as he sought to shift the party's image from defender of the wealthy north against its 'parasite' south, to that of guardian of Italy's national sovereignty.  Since Salvini took over the League, nearly 700,000 people have landed in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean, sparking a sense of resentment among many Italians who feel Europe has abandoned them. Salvini was in 2009 caught on video singing songs about 'stinking' Neapolitans and in 2012 said the south did not deserve the euro. But he represents impoverished southern region Calabria in the Senate and has redirected his regional chauvinism to take the League nationwide.  Born and raised in Milan in 1973, Salvini joined what was then the Northern League in 1990, aged just 17, rising quickly through the ranks. At the time, the Northern League was a regional party known for its separatist campaign to secede from Italy.  Salvini ran its Radio Padania, the referring to the wealthier northern region they wanted to see independent. One of his shows was called 'Never Say Italy' and in 2011, he won notoriety for boycotting Italy's 150-year anniversary celebrations, putting his desk outside Milan city hall to show he was working. 'The Tricolore doesn't represent me,' Salvini said of the Italian flag in 2014. +15 Salvini took control of the right-wing coalition that won the most votes in March's election when his League party surpassed ally Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia But by 2018, he was campaigning as far south as Matera in the impoverished Basilicata region, where he promised 'order, rules, cleanliness' and railed against 'out of control' immigration. In a video on his Facebook page, which has more than two million fans, Salvini said he would work to 'stop the landings' once in power. He opposes same-sex unions wants to deport foreign criminals and sparked outrage on Monday when he promised a head count of Italy's Roma community and to throw out those without legal status. And as talks were under way to form the new government, he posted a photo of himself standing next to a bulldozer on Twitter with the message: 'We're working for you.'  Since taking over the League, Salvini has forged alliances with other far-right Europeans like France's National Front and Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders. Despite positive words for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Salvini in 2013 called the EU a 'gulag' like the 'Soviet Union' saying he would work to try and leave it.  A savvy social media user, he has managed to successfully push his agenda online, updating his followers daily with constant updates, live videos, photos and even pictures of what he eats. Although happy to talk about his two children - 14-year-old Federico and Mirta, five - he is less happy to discuss his complicated love life. Currently living with glamorous model and TV presenter Elisa Isoardi, his children are from two previous relationships, one with ex-wife Fabrizia Ieluzzi, a political journalist, and the other with former girlfriend Giulia Martinelli.  Key developments in Europe's migration crisis A massive influx of migrants to Europe over the past few years has left thousands drowned and caused deep tensions between nations over how to handle the huge number of arrivals. With key EU leaders to hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels on Sunday, here is a look back over the main developments since 2011. 2011 to 2014: Surge with Syria at war The surge in migrant numbers starts in 2011 and steadily increases until 2014 when 280,000 arrive, four times more than the previous year. Most land in Italy and Greece. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says more than 3,500 people, fleeing war and misery, died at sea in 2014 alone, mainly in the central Mediterranean. The conflict in Syria, which started in March 2011, leads to a massive exodus of people, mostly to camps in neighbouring countries. The UNHCR says in October 2014 that just over 144,630 Syrians had requested asylum in the EU since 2011, with Germany and Sweden shouldering the burden. It says in June 2014 that 2.5 million people had fled Syria. By April 2018 this figure is at more than 5.6 million, according to the UNHCR website. 2015: More than one million migrants The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 1,047,000 migrants arrived by sea in Europe in 2015, of whom around 854,000 went to Greece and 154,000 to Italy. The increase is due to the raging Syrian conflict and a deterioration in living conditions in refugee camps. On April 19, 2015 the worst Mediterranean disaster in decades takes place when up to 800 people, mainly from West Africa, die after their crammed fishing boat capsizes in Libyan waters. In 2015 nearly 3,800 deaths at sea are registered by the UNHCR. +15 The war in Syria is credited with kick-starting a wave of migrant movement towards Europe In late summer of 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decides to open Germany's borders to migrants. Some 890,000 arrive over the year and she comes under strong criticism from many of her EU partners. Central and eastern EU nations such as Hungary and Poland refuse outright or resist taking in refugees under an EU quota system. At bursting point, Germany reestablishes border checks, suspending free movement in the EU. Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, all transit countries, follow suit. Hungary and Slovenia, the main entry points to the passport-free Schengen zone, put up fences. Asylum demands peak with 1.26 million demands in the EU in 2015. 2016: Accord with Turkey The EU and Turkey sign a controversial deal in 2016 aimed at stemming the migrant flow to the Aegean Greek islands. Combined with the closure of the so-called Balkans route, the flow drops sharply as Turkey boosts its coastal patrols. Arrivals in Europe fall in 2016 to 390,000, according to the IOM. 2017: Italy on the frontline As the route via Greece and Turkey dries up, Libya becomes the main migration route and Italy the main entry point to Europe. The trend is reversed radically from July 2017 due to accords struck by Rome with the Libyan authorities and militias. After these accords, which involve support to the Libyan coastguards, the number of arrivals in Italy drops by more than 75 percent. 2018: Political crisis in EU In Italy, which has seen around 700,000 migrants arrive since 2013, an anti-migrant coalition including the far right is sworn in to government in June. It refuses to allow the Aquarius rescue ship carrying 630 migrants to dock on its shores; the migrants are taken in by Spain on June 17, after a turbulent week at sea. The case leads to political recriminations and heightened tensions within the EU, particularly between Rome and Paris. In Germany, hardliners in Merkel's conservative bloc on June 18 give her an ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching Germany into a political crisis that would also rattle Europe.

Images show how the Calais migrant camp has sprawled to the size of a small town that is now home to some 5,000 refugees (and even has its own farm, mosque and shop) Up to 150 migrants arriving each day at shanty town – dubbed the 'New Jungle' – before trying to sneak into Britain Refugees use camp as springboard to launch dangerous bids to jump on truck and trains, sparking travel mayhem These remarkable aerial photographs show how the Calais migrant camp has ballooned to the size of a small town that is now home to some 5,000 refugees.  Up to 150 migrants are arriving each day at the controversial shanty town – dubbed the 'New Jungle' – before trying to sneak into Britain. The tented community is now so established in the dunes just outside the French port that the migrants even have their own shops, churches, mosques and a farm.  Many use the camp as a springboard for launching dangerous attempts to reach the UK by jumping onto lorries and Eurotunnel trains which have sparked a summer of travel misery for British holidaymakers. Scroll down for video  +12 Sprawling: An aerial view tented migrant camp dubbed the 'New Jungle' which is now understood to be home to some 5,000 migrants +12 Staging post: Up to 150 migrants are arriving each day at the shanty town in the dunes outside Calais before trying to sneak into Britain +12 Making themselves at home: The tented community is now so established the migrants have their own shops, churches, mosques and a farm +12 Many are using the camp as a springboard for launching dangerous attempts to reach the UK by jumping onto lorries and Eurotunnel trains The camp – which is also known as 'Jungle Two' – has been branded an 'intolerable humanitarian scandal' and a 'government-sanctioned slum' by activist groups. The migrants moved to the dunes after they were kicked out of their former camp, called the Jungle. State authorities pushed them away from the city to the wasteland next to the Jules Ferry centre, which was renovated with a £3million EU grant to shelter women migrants. It also now provides food and shower facilities for the thousands of men who have set up camp nearby. +12 The 'town' – estimated population 5,000 – already boasts three shops, selling essentials such as tinned food, fizzy drinks and washing up liquid (and with someone else's supermarket trolleys outside) +12 In response to criticism about the conditions, France has vowed to spend £360,000 improving the camp, which lies near the English Channel +12 Solace: Christians mainly from Eritrea have built this church in the 'New Jungle' migrant camp in Calais after fleeing their native country +12 A mosque which has been built in the Calais migrant camp. The new town, recently described by aid workers as 'the worst in Europe – if not the world', is seen as a 'tolerated zone' by the French authorities +12 The migrant camp is just a few hundred metres from the ferry and Eurotunnel terminals, giving them prime position to try to sneak into Britain Between 50 and 150 migrants are said to be arriving in Calais every day as increasing numbers make their way to Europe across the Mediterranean.  Many living in the New Jungle camp have fled conflicts in Syria, Libya and sub-Saharan Africa, while others have arrived by land, often travelling from places like Afghanistan via the Balkans.  The new town, also recently described by aid workers as 'the worst in Europe – if not the world', is seen as a 'tolerated zone' by the French authorities.    +12 The migrants hope to gain entry to the Britain, just 21 miles away across the English Channel, but in May, French police destroyed their camp and told the migrants to go elsewhere. And so they moved... across the street +12 Slum: The new town, described by aid workers as 'the worst in Europe – if not the world', is seen as a 'tolerated zone' by the French authorities +12 Many living in the camp made the perilous boat crossing across the Mediterranean, having fled conflicts in Syria, Libya and sub-Saharan Africa In response to the criticism about the conditions by the UN and other aid groups, France has vowed to spend €500,000 (£360,000) improving the camp, which lies close to the English Channel. News of the makeover provoked a furious response earlier this year from France's former employment minister Xavier Bertrand, who blamed Britain's 'black jobs market' for attracting thousands of migrants to Calais. He said: 'This means the English – and here is the hypocrisy – have a cheap labour market because illegal immigrants are paid so much less.' 'If Mr Cameron wants to hold a debate about the European Union, he should first stop this hypocrisy. 'It's not an 'a la carte' EU where you can choose only the bits of it you want...We need to say very clearly to people who arrive in Europe that there are no more jobs or welfare benefits here.' Calais' thin blue line: Helpless French police are over-run as hundreds more migrants storm Channel Tunnel declaring 'it's England or death' - so when will Cameron finally take action? Demands growing for Britain to send in Army to help with Calais chaos as migrants continue to besiege Calais For the third night running, migrants tried to storm the Channel Tunnel where French authorities have 'lost control' David Cameron today blamed the crisis at Calais on the 'swarm of people' crossing the Mediterranean It comes after a Sudanese man was killed in the chaos early on Wednesday morning after being crushed by a truck Senior Tory MP Andrew Percy said: 'It is time we considered more radical options, including the use of the Army' David Cameron was today accused of failing to get a grip on the Calais crisis and leaving it to the ill-equipped French as panicked Gendarmerie were again overwhelmed by hundreds of desperate migrants who laid siege to the Channel Tunnel for the third night running. Around 4,000 people have stormed fences and desperately tried to clamber on trains bound for Kent in the past three days - a deadly gamble that has allowed at least 150 to get to Britain but also claimed the lives of nine people. The deepening crisis has led to 120 French riot police being called up to help the 250 uniformed officers already there but critics say that this is nowhere near enough and believe David Cameron must now send British troops. Migrants are still easily breaching the 15 mile fence surrounding the Channel Tunnel and jumping on to moving high speed trains or trying to get in or under lorries queuing to get on trains. Outside others will try to clamber on to vehicles heading to the nearby ferry port. Senior MPs, backed by hauliers, have demanded the British Army should be sent in to restore order because the French authorities had 'lost control', David Cameron today blamed the crisis at Calais on the 'swarm of people' crossing the Mediterranean, and backed the French to deal with it. But Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Prime Minister's attempts at diplomacy with the French government 'isn't working' and added: 'Still not enough is being done to stop a difficult situation becoming desperate'. Scroll down for video +40 Losing battle: Two heavily outnumber French police try to stop a migrant trying to get to the Channel Tunnel as critics demanded the Prime Minister get a grip on the situation +40 Gang mentality: The migrants are overwhelming police as they rush the Channel Tunnel in huge numbers as they desperately try to board trains +40 Overwhelmed: A panicked French policeman watched in despair as huge numbers of men and women rush past as they try to get access to the Channel Tunnel Trespassing: Using clothes tied together to clamber up a fence this man managed to pull himself up and over through a gap in barbed wire +40 Breach: Migrants climb over a flimsy fence near train tracks as they join hundreds of others attempting to access the Channel Tunnel near Calais yesterday +40 A graphic showing how the migrant camp in Calais, northern France, is just a few hundred metres from the ferry and Eurotunnel terminals, giving asylum seekers prime position to try to sneak across into Britai Speaking in Vietnam this morning the Prime Minister vowed to do 'everything we can' to stop people's holidays been disrupted by the chaos, adding: 'This is very testing, I accept that, because you have got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come to Britain because Britain has got jobs, it's got a growing economy, it's an incredible place to live. 'But we need to protect our borders by working hand in glove with our neighbours the French and that is exactly what we are doing.' Ukip leader Nigel Farage said he would 'not use language like that' after Mr Cameron described the migrants as a 'swarm' and condemned the Prime Minister's 'warm words'. He told MailOnline: 'I am so used to everything being too little, too late from him. I need to see how we are going to stop 150 estimated illegal immigrants coming in every single night. 'And how is he going to change the process where only one in four of those who are caught are ever sent back? 'In five years of Tory government, none of this has improved. Words are fine but what is he actually going to do?' 'The Prime Minister is this morning trying to sound tough, whether he means it or not is another question.' Earlier Mr Farage said on Good Morning Britain : 'A couple of times I've been stuck on the motorway surrounded by swarms of potential migrants to Britain' On BBC Radio 4, asked about Cameron describing migrants as a 'swarm', Farage said: 'I'm not seeking to use language like that.'  Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Prime Minister's attempts at diplomacy with the French government 'isn't working'. She added: 'Still not enough is being done to stop a difficult situation becoming desperate. 'We need far more action from the French Government to assess people arriving in France, to prevent people reaching Calais in the first place and to police the roads where lorries are targets. 'And that means British ministers need to be putting on maximum diplomatic pressure and working closely to get the response from France and other European countries'. Last night a gang of around 400 migrants stormed the Tunnel perimeter - taking the total to almost 4,000 who got on to the tracks since Monday night - and at least 150 are known to have made it to Britain. Meanwhile there is mayhem on the British side of the Channel with thousands of lorries backed up in Kent queuing in Operation Stack. For 24 of the past 40 days, the coast-bound side of the M20 has been closed bringing misery to residents, businesses and holidaymakers. As he faces major criticism of his handling of the crisis, speaking in Vietnam the Prime Minister said he was working to improve border security as well as deporting more illegal immigrants who manage to cross the Channel. He said: 'This is very testing, I accept that. You have got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come to Britain because Britain has got jobs, it's got a growing economy, it's an incredible place to live. 'But we need to protect our borders by working hand in glove with our neighbours the French and that is exactly what we are doing.'  Migrants break through fences at Eurotunnel entrance in Calais   Enforcement: Home Secretary Theresa May called for an urgent security review, following a meeting of the Cobra civil contingency committee as migrants stormed Calais +40 Incursion: Migrants have admitted they are willing to die to get to Britain as this man  leaps from the top of the fence to try to get close to the trains +40 Night attempt: A gang look for gaps or weak points in the fencing as they try to get to the UK with some saying they accept it's 'England or death' Stand-off: Migrants clash with French police last night as a new attempt was made to rush to Tunnel, although in the past month nine people have been killed attempting to cross the Channel PM SLAMMED OVER 'SWARM' ROW David Cameron was today accused of 'dog-whistle' politics after describing hundreds of migrants in Calais as a 'swarm'. The Prime Minister blamed the crisis on a 'swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come to Britain. In response, Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham wrote on Twitter: 'Cameron calling Calais migrants a 'swarm' is nothing short of disgraceful. 'Confirms there's no dog-whistle these Bullingdon Boys won't blow.' Ukip leader Nigel Farage also tried to distance himself from the term, suggesting it was part of an effort by Mr Cameron to appear 'tough' on immigration. Asked if he would use the word 'swarm', Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'No. No, I'm not seeking to use language like that. 'The Prime Minister is this morning trying to sound tough. Whether he actually means it or not is quite a separate question.' But barely an hour earlier, Mr Farage had used the term himself, telling ITV's Good Morning Britain: 'A couple of times I've been stuck on the motorway surrounded by swarms of potential migrants to Britain.' The Refugee Council described Mr Cameron's remark as 'awful, dehumanising language from a world leader'. It comes as one migrant - a Sudanese man in his 20s or early 30s - slipped as he tried to get underneath a train inside the high-security zone surrounding the undersea link in the early hours of yesterday morning when 1,500 attempted to get across. On Monday night, more than 2,000 illegal immigrants tried to break through the Tunnel entrance, prompting an urgent security review which saw more than 120 police officers drafted in to secure the terminals. Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May admitted for the first time that illegal migrants were getting into Britain. Labour MP Keith Vaz said that during one visit to Kent he had seen 148 migrants 'delighted' to have made it to the UK. On a day of drama: Eurotunnel said it had intercepted a staggering 37,000 migrants and was being subjected to 'systematic invasions' The M20 in Kent was once again turned into a lorry park, delaying holidaymakers heading for France Hauliers warned of huge losses to exports and increases in food prices As David Cameron used his Far East trip to preach against slave labour, the French said the migrant crisis was caused by foreigners coming to work in appalling conditions in Britain's black economy. A French policeman patrolling the motorway near the Eurotunnel terminal said yesterday: 'We are completely overwhelmed. It just gets worse and worse. 'At the Channel Tunnel terminal all we can do is pick them up and then drop them off a few hundred metres away. We can't lock them up.'   Tory MP Andrew Percy said last night: 'The situation is now clearly out of control and it is clear that the current arrangements are not working and that the French are unable to guard against these infringements of our border. 'It is time we considered more radical options, including the use of the Army. The British people expect our border to be secure and the Government must do whatever it takes to achieve this.' Former immigration minister Damian Green said the UK government had resisted the temptation to criticise the French because they could tear up the agreement which means the border is on French soil. He told MailOnline: 'In the end it's happening in France so the French have to be the effective authority. I think the British government has taken the no-doubt sensible decision that just shouting at the French may not achieve anything. 'The single biggest protection we have is our border is in France. If the French took that away we would be seeing those scenes in Kent - although the situation is terrible at the moment it could be much worse.' The MP for Ashford added: 'The French appear to be getting the point that this can't carry on. 'They clearly have the capacity to protect the terminal if they have got the will to do so. Having said they are going to send more riot police in, we will know over the next couple of days whether they mean it or not.' +40 Rush: Police chase a group through a ditch and across a dual carriageway as they fail to keep control of the situation in Calais +40 Overwhelmed: A police officer watches helplessly as a group of migrants trying to reach the Channel Tunnel sprint past him +40 Brazen: A migrant crawls through a hole in a fence near near train tracks as he attempts to access the Channel Tunnel in Frethun, near Calais, France, hours after another migrant died while trying to get across +40 Bold: A migrant crawls through a tiny gap as dusk falls over Calais, before a perilous walk along a railway track to reach the Tunnel A migrant makes his way through the tiny gap (left) to follow other people with hopes of crossing into the UK (right) despite security being stepped up +40 Migrants cover their faces and pull up their hoods as they enter the Channel Tunnel terminust through a hole in a fence at Calais Freuthan +40 Officers: France has sent in an extra 120 police officers to secure the terminals as Eurotunnel revealed it had now blocked more than 37,000 such attempts since January +40 Migrants who made it past the Channel Tunnel security fences at Calais yesterday head for the tunnel entrance to try to board a train to Britain. It came as MPs claimed the UK needed to send the Army in to help +40 Desperate: Women wrapped in scarves scramble over the fence before they try to catch a train to reach England, in Calais, France, yesterday +40 Migrants walk on a road outside the Eurotunnel in Calais as the authorities struggle to contain the situation +40 At least 2,200 illegal migrants have so far tried to storm the Channel Tunnel in a bid to reach Britain from France. These migrants were seen walking along tracks at the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais on Tuesday The UK and France working together on immigration chaos   As the Port of Dover said the disruption at Calais was costing the UK £250million a day in lost trade, the Road Haulage Association said the French army should be deployed, with support from the British. +40 Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to 'point fingers of blame' at the French authorities after another 1,500 illegal immigrants stormed the Tunnel Chief executive Richard Burnett said: 'It has become clear that the French authorities in Calais simply cannot cope. This has become an untenable situation.' Sir Gerald Howarth, a former defence minister, said: 'If we have another episode like we had last night, the authorities will have to consider closing the Tunnel. If we need to close it, we should close it. We can't go on like this.' The Tory MP added: 'This crisis and immigration in general will dominate the EU referendum. We must take back control of immigration.' There was also growing fury in Westminster at the inadequate response of the French, who MPs accuse of ushering the migrants towards the UK. Former minister Tim Loughton said the French were 'culpable' for allowing migrants to storm the Tunnel in order to 'make a European problem a British problem'. He told the BBC: 'There is no advantage and no justification for the French to allow 5,000 people with little grounds for being in the UK to gather at Calais. And when they are detained for trying to get in the Tunnel, they are let go two miles out of the town so they can try again and again and again. 'The situation is not going to improve while that nonsense carries on.' But despite the rising anger among Tory backbenchers, Mr Cameron and Home Secretary Mrs May refused to criticise the French Government. They are afraid that the Hollande Government might rip up treaties which allow the UK to carry out border checks on French soil. In Vietnam, Mr Cameron – who ordered a meeting of the emergency COBRA committee yesterday after being shocked by the coverage of the chaos unfolding in Calais – advised against 'trying to point fingers of blame'. Senior Whitehall sources last night played down prospect of the Army being deployed in either France or the UK. Instead, contingency plans are focusing on trying to ease the pressure on the M20, which had 3,600 lorries queuing on it yesterday. The Home Office is working with the French authorities to send more of the West African migrants massed at Calais back home. This could include the use of joint removal flights. Mrs May refused to say how many migrants had entered the UK, but conceded: 'A number of people have come through. We will be dealing with anybody's asylum claim in the normal way as we always do.' When asked if the military should be used, she said: 'This is about ensuring we get that security fencing up, it's about working with Eurotunnel to ensure we have got the best measures in place.' France said last night it was sending extra police officers to Calais. +40 Police have said the mayhem on the M20 in Kent is likely to continue into the weekend, providing no respite for those who live and work in the county. Businesses in the area are estimated to be losing £1.5million a day +40 Lorries were backed up again yesterday after plans to introduce a contraflow system to ease the burden on the county were ruled out because of safety fears. There were around 3,600 lorries caught up last night alone Flimsy fences that are no barrier: Men, woman and children simply pull themselves through mesh on to the train tracks to begin perilous walk to Channel Tunnel These flimsy mesh fences – flapping in the evening breeze with gaping holes cut in them – are all that stands between migrants in Calais and passage to the UK. Behind the supposed security barriers, which are similar to the surrounds of a municipal tennis court, are the Eurotunnel trains the migrants try to stow away on. Last night, as dusk fell on the railway line, astonishing scenes unfolded. First, young men and then women and children simply pulled themselves through the railside defences and on to the ballast of the tracks. +40 Breach: Migrants break through a fence near train tracks as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel near Calais yesterday +40 A Sudanese man, in his 20s or early 30s, slipped as he tried to get underneath a train inside the high-security zone surrounding the undersea link in the early hours. Pictured, migrants scale the fence +40 French Gendarmerie watch as migrants cross through the flimsy fences and onto the railway as freight trains and car shuttles lumber by From there, they face a perilous walk to the Channel Tunnel and their chance of a new life in Britain. The dangers to lives are obvious as freight trains and car shuttles lumber by. Police union spokesman Gilles Debove said: 'They have nothing to lose – they have travelled thousands of kilometres and they are ready to die on the last stretch if necessary.' This week the migrants' efforts have reached new levels: two mass assaults in two nights have seen more than 3,500 try to storm the tunnel. At least one migrant, a Sudanese man in his 20s, died – crushed under the wheels of a truck. The hole in the fence close to the small village of Frethun is clearly well used. There is evidence that it has been repaired a number of times with wire and clips and a beaten path shows the way. But no sooner do security guards close it up, it is ripped open by the wandering gangs. Each night migrants walk, hitchhike and even cycle from their camps in Calais to the port, or to the Tunnel entrance, where they try to board lorries on trains. Extra riot police were drafted in to Calais yesterday, but officers said they were fighting a losing battle. +40 A group of migrants brazenly walk on the railway, bypassing an old carriage, as they make their final bid for freedom into the UK +40 Eurotunnel revealed it had now blocked more than 37,000 such attempts by migrants (some pictured making their way along train tracks near Calais) since January +40 A second man is believed to have suffered horrifying burns after being electrocuted as tried to get on to the roof of a London-bound Eurostar train at the Gare du Nord in Paris. Pictured, migrants walk along a railway track in Calais +40 There have now been eleven deaths in less than two months, as increasingly desperate migrants (some pictured in Coquelles) take more risks to get to Britain British lorry driver Les Muffett, 56, from Witham, Essex, told how he saw a group of migrants waiting to storm the Channel Tunnel when he arrived in France. 'They were walking around like passengers. It was crazy. It's the first time I've seen that. It's scary because we don't know what will happen. A friend of mine was sitting in the queue and they cut his lorry open and got in. You can't confront them. They carry knives. All you can do is stay in the lorry, lock the cab up and let them get on with it.' The death of the Sudanese man takes the grim total to 11 in less than two months. Most have been killed after climbing on the top of trains, walking along busy motorways, or falling into water. More than 5,000 migrants are thought to be living in desperate conditions in camps in Calais. They live in tents and shacks on a 40-acre stretch of industrial wasteland three miles from Calais port. State authorities pushed them away from the city to the wasteland, seen as a 'tolerated zone', and it has grown considerably in recent weeks. Some of the better houses have heavy-duty locks and chains on the doors. Others are simply sticks covered in tarpaulin. Despite the grim conditions, many have tried to brighten their temporary homes with flower displays, pictures, mirrors and paintings. There are several mosques, and a church is being built. There are also shops selling sweets, drinks, snacks and cleaning products. Those who are not trying their luck getting to Britain sit around playing cards or football. +40 A migrant helps another man through the small gap in the fence in the hope they will be able to cross over into Britain for asylum +40 There are currently some 5,000 illegal migrants in the French port and they seem to be using any opportunity they can to get to the UK +40 Eurotunnel said that since the arrival of migrants in the area around Calais, it has in physical resources - fences, cameras, infra-red detectors - and personnel One Afghan migrant has even opened a café. The man, who would not be named, was living in the UK but decided to travel to the French camp, he told the BBC. He speaks seven languages and has lived in Norway, Italy and the UK. 'Now I want to stay here, because of the restaurant', he said. The man said the camp's residents were 'people, humans – not animals' and proudly displayed anti-racism messages outside his café. Last night, residents of the camp pledged to continue their efforts to reach the UK. 'We are determined to get to England, nothing will stop us,' said Gez Ariam, a 19-year-old Eritrean. 'We've travelled thousands of miles – this last stretch of sea won't stand in our way. 'The journey to Britain can be a dangerous one, but it is our only hope. We want new lives in a good country that cares about people like us. Our route across the sea is either on ferries, or via the Tunnel trains. These are our options, and we have to take them.' Mo Farouk, another resident said: 'The security can be hard to deal with, but we are brave and not scared of the risks.' He said he paid £2,000 in cash for a passage from his home in Eritrea, through Libya and Italy, and then on to France. 'England is where I want to be, and that's where I'll claim asylum,' said Farouk, adding: 'If I am sent back to my own country, I will be killed.' Christian Salome, president of L'Auberge des Migrants, a group that provides food and other supplies in the camp, said getting to the UK was 'just a matter of time'. 'All of them get there in the end,' he said. 'No fence is too difficult – in the end, borders are there to be crossed.' +40 Businesses of all sizes in Kent have united to call for the issue to be dealt with quickly as they struggle to receive supplies and welcome visitors following Operation Stack (pictured, lorries queued on the M20) +40 Kent County Council estimates the impact on the county's economy is around £1.5 million a day, and that there needs to be intervention from government and Highways England