MIGRANTS in France are currently paying gangs around €1,500 each to cross the Channel in small boats, a GB News investigation has found.
GB News presenter Patrick Christys interviewed a man in Calais today who said he believed there is “no way” he could be deported from the UK if he manages to make it across.
The unnamed 28-year-old said he was from South Sudan and wanted to get to the UK because “you can stay” and it is difficult to get paid work in France.
He arrived in Italy and had crossed three countries to make it to Calais, where he is waiting for the chance to cross.
He said: “From the England, you can stay…you can understand the language. You stay away with the people better than the French here.
“Sometimes in France here, you cannot get a job very fast, okay? You’re foreign. That’s why all people from Africa…they’re interested in England, just England.”
Asked about the cost of getting on a smugglers’ boat, he said: “Yeah, it can cost a lot of money. It can cost a lot, you need €1,500.
“Some people who know [are] close to this place now, they can help you to go.”
He said he arrived two months ago and has been living in a tent in conditions he described as “difficult” and wants to get work in the construction industry in the UK.
“I want to go and start back again because I was studying. I started school long [ago], the situation of South Sudan, I leave the school. Not me alone, a lot of us,” he said.
Asked what he would do if he were told he cannot stay in the UK, he said: “If they try to send me back to my country? No way.
“If they wanted to send me back, there’s no way. Talking to people, they are still fighting and they are still dying.”
Patrick will be presenting his show live from France tonight from 9pm.
