Migrants set up tents on French cliffs waiting for boats to smuggle them into UK
GROUPS of Albanian migrants have bragged how at least 50 of their countrymen are making it to Britain illegally every week.
Their ramshackle camp precariously perched on and beneath a crumbling clifftop yards from the open beach in Dieppe is one of the new launchpads to the UK.
It is home to 150 eastern Europeans economic migrants desperate to join friends and family who have already made it across the English Channel.
England is a good country, for me there is lots of opportunity to work
But he said that having once again made his way up through northern France to Normandy, he and his colleagues would seek to exploit Britain’s “non-existent security” across the south coast of England.
He said that smugglers were using French fishermen to ferry scores across the Channel to within sight of the English coastline.
Jimmy Korbi from Tirana said: “I would say more than 50 Albanians reach Britain every week from northern France.
“England is a good country, for me there is lots of opportunity to work.”
His candid admission shatters the myth the UK border is safe and secure exposing it as a revolving door to thousands who want to plunder jobs and benefits.
Fluent English speaking Jimmy, 24, said he was shopped to Border Force earlier this year and was put on a flight back to Albania.
But immediately after he was repatriated he headed back to Dieppe – the port from where he stowed away in 2014 – to prepare a fresh assault.
His detailed first-hand explanation sheds fresh light on the rush to reach Britain where millions of cash-in-hands jobs are waiting in the black economy.
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Some migrants are charged £7,000 to be taken across the Channel
Ferry crossings to the Sussex port of Newhaven 75 miles away take four hours but a trip on a rigid inflatable can be done in half the time.
Colleague Igor Ogazidede, 16, said: “A friend told me he had made it to England on Tuesday night. I want to go because I have family who are there working on the black market. It is easier to try here than in Calais.”
The camp sits just 150 yards from the bustling ferry terminal.
Yesterday migrants were able to loiter at the port entrance unchallenged, keeping in constant communication with those who had crossed the Channel via mobile phones.
Smugglers have turned to rhibs and fishing vessels because the traditional method of stowing away on lorries is seen as outdated and unsophisticated.
Sources say the lucrative trade in human trafficking along the northern French coast alone is now worth £6billion a year.
Criminal networks masterminding the rocketing trade pay fishermen around £1,000 per trip, pocketing 90 per cent of the £7,000 handling fee.
Calais, where thousands of migrants still live in the notorious “Jungle” camp, was once the favoured smuggling route.
But armed gangs now transport their human cargo along an unprotected coastline stretching from Calais to Cherbourg.
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The camp is in Dieppe, 120 south of Calais
Brussels bureaucrats have given Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Turkey approval in principle to be the next to join the EU club, making them “candidate countries”.
Ukip MEP Mike Hookem said: “If you think things are bad now, just wait until these countries join and get free movement to the UK.
“We already know the large percentage of crimes carried out in Britain are by foreign gangs exploiting EU open borders and treating this country like a giant pocket to pick.
“Can anyone point to a candidate country which didn’t succeed in joining political union?”
No official figures for the number of illegal crossings attempted are available, but the Daily Express was told as many 400 migrants could be trying to reach the UK each week by boat.
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A French customs boat on its way to harbour
“The gangs are made up of mainly Albanian criminals, with plenty of accomplices who have British passports.
“They have a constant supply of customers. These are economic migrants too, not poor people fleeing war and persecution. If something isn’t done soon then we can expect a disaster.”
Ukip MEP Diane James said: “The EU’s hopeless migrant strategy creates a human hide and seek for people smugglers. Remember, Calais investment is principally funded by UK taxpayers, but has merely moved the problem elsewhere in northern France.”
Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliot said: “This is a miserable and chaotic situation the blame for which lies squarely at the doors of the EU.
“Their disastrous open borders policy means literally millions of people are moving across the continent, vulnerable to exploitation by criminal gangs.
“With our generous National Living Wage and benefits system it’s not surprising migrants are attracted to our country. It is British people who suffer the consequences of uncontrolled migration and the only way to take back control is to vote to leave on June 23.”
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