England is building a wall to keep immigrants out

Migrants will likely find a way around the wall.
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The U.K. is erecting a wall on the other side of the Channel, in France, in an attempt to keep refugees and migrants out, The Guardian reports. The "big, new wall" in the port city of Calais will be completed by the end of the year, and stand 13 feet high and stretch just over half a mile long, running along the main road where migrants often block the motorway with debris as they try to climb aboard trucks heading to the U.K. Plants and flowers will be used to make what residents are calling "the great wall of Calais" less of an eyesore.

"People are still getting through," immigration minister Robert Goodwill said. "We have done the fences. Now we are doing the wall."

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.