Calais migrants insist they’ll make it to Britain despite Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s vow not to give anymore ‘a home’ here
Protesters at the Jungle pelted riot police with stones while the make-shift camp was cleared
MIGRANTS last night vowed to still get to Britain despite Home Secretary Amber Rudd insisting no new children at the Calais Jungle would be given a home here.
The ruling came as police began clearing up to 10,000 people at the camp.
Last night some protesters pelted riot police with stones while screaming: “F*** the police.”
Officers fired tear gas to get them away from a fence preventing them from boarding UK-bound lorries.
At one point youths rushed towards onlookers yelling: “Walk away, walk away.”
French authorities said 2,318 of the migrants were bussed from the camp yesterday to centres around the country.
The plan is to relocate all migrants and refugees at seven centres and the Jungle will be wiped off the map.
Delivering an urgent statement in the Commons, Mrs Rudd said: “Through this process it is important we do not encourage more children to head to Calais, risking their lives in the hands of traffickers.
“That’s why we will only consider those present in the camps before the start of clearances of the operation today.”
The UK has agreed to take hundreds of unaccompanied kids who have relatives here.
Mrs Rudd said: “We will continue to do this quickly. But it is essential we carry out the proper safeguarding, age assessment and security checks to ensure the children are eligible, and that it is in their best interests to come.”
Meanwhile an Afghan called Jamil told The Sun: “If you want to go to UK you have to go to Calais. This won’t change anything.
“I am alone. My family are in the UK. I will go to the UK.
“Police say they will arrest you if you say you are not going to another city. But it is stupid to move us away from Calais. We will just come back.”
Trouble first flared on Saturday and Sunday night amid fears at least 200 anarchists, some from British group No Borders, had infiltrated the Jungle.
Calais official Fabienne Buccio said: “We know many arrived this weekend. We have already turned back activists at the border.”
Around 1,250 police are at the camp, with two uniformed officers from Britain acting as spotters.
The site has been put under lockdown with authorities operating a pass system to head off trouble.
But tensions mounted yesterday. One man warned: “You need to be very careful in here.
“You need to make sure you keep your eyes open. There are plenty of people with knives in the Jungle.”
Around 1,000 mainly young men from Eritrea and Sudan waited to be processed at a transport hub in an empty warehouse near the camp.
At least 50 armed riot police had to march in to control the crowd, with pushing and shoving at the front.
Scuffles kept breaking out and punches were thrown forcing the police to widen the queues to give them more space.
The seven regions migrants are being taken to are in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bretagne, Pays-de-Loire, Poitou-Charentes, Grand Est and Nouvelle Aquitain.