Trouble in Calais is a symptom of a global crisis

SIR – Continuing to view the Calais “Jungle” camp as solely a French problem is counterproductive.

Tragically, this is just one aspect of a growing global migration crisis. We need a global development and migration resettlement strategy if countries like Britain are not to be overwhelmed by legal and illegal immigration. Mike Tyler Worthing, West Sussex SIR – It is obvious that the arrangements in Calais to prevent illegal immigrants entering Britain are only partially successful (“Hundreds of migrants a week ‘breach UK border security in lorry drops’ ”, report, August 28).

It is also apparent that the great majority of those entering the country are young men, a portion of whom are not entitled to claim asylum. Currently many of these young men are disappearing into our large cities.

Police mutual aid has often been used in this country to supplement local police when a problem is beyond their resources. I would suggest that mutual aid should be used to bolster the number of officers in the port area of Kent.

Officers would not be working under the pressure that exists in Calais. Guided by intelligence reports, large numbers of vehicles could be searched with the aid of sniffer dogs. If the immigrants discovered are entitled to claim asylum, they can be properly processed. If they are not entitled to asylum, they can be detained and the deportation process started. Doug Hopkins Epping , Essex SIR – There is no need for Britain to process arriving asylum seekers in Calais, or anywhere else.

Those people have not complied with the Dublin Convention and applied in the first safe country they arrived in, so are illegal immigrants and France should be deporting them.

They cannot apply to Britain for asylum as they are already in a safe country. Those are the regulations to which we all agreed. Alan Kibblewhite Temple Grafton, Warwickshire