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Britain, France boost security to stop migrants from Channel

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 file photo, migrants run a long the train track after crossing a fence as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France. A gallery of images recounting the lives of some of the estimated 3,000 migrants who have gathered in the northern French port city of Calais, most feeding on the hope of sneaking across the English Channel to settle in Britain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 file photo, migrants run a long the train track after crossing a fence as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France. A gallery of images recounting the lives of some of the estimated 3,000 migrants who have gathered in the northern French port city of Calais, most feeding on the hope of sneaking across the English Channel to settle in Britain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

By Associated Press August 20, 2015 1 min read

CALAIS, France (AP) – Britain and France are fortifying security around the Channel Tunnel and boosting intelligence efforts against traffickers as they try to dissuade thousands of migrants from trying to make the illegal – and sometimes deadly – undersea journey to British shores.

Better fencing, surveillance cameras, flood lighting and infrared detection technology will be installed around the entrance to the Eurotunnel in the French port of Calais, as part of joint efforts being announced Thursday.

Calais has been a flashpoint in a European summer marked by unusually large waves of migrants. Since the start of June, at least 10 migrants have died trying to sneak through the Channel Tunnel in hopes of finding prosperity in Britain. Countless others have slipped through undetected on trucks and one recently on foot.