emily you've said quite clearly before that you're not interested in my expertise; however, not everyone in Calais has fled a war zone - there are Ethiopians, Sudanese, a few Kenyans and Ugandans, Nigerians (from the coast, not the North) Guineans, Pakistanis (not from the FATA areas: there are indeed some Afghans, Iraqis and Syrians there - that's true. But they are not the majority. It doesn't mean that they don't deserve to be treated with human dignity - but it's disingenuous in the extreme to suggest that everyone who has left home for a better life, no matter how much we sympathise with that ideal, has fled persecution or war.
I personally would like to move to Canada or Australia for a better life, not to mention significantly higher salaries, both of whom have points system: but despite the fact I have two PhDs, professional qualifications, and am multi-lingual, my age (early 40s) and profession means that I cannot just move - like many specialised and educated individuals who want to come to the UK, I could only do so if an employer could first prove they couldn't recruit within their national borders for their post, and then sponsored my visa. That's the way the world works, I'm afraid - there are national borders, and countries restrict immigration to people they need, and people in need of help.
You don't ever seem to consider the moral implications of the west "cherry picking" those entrepreneurial enough to make the decision to risk migrating - it costs an Eritrean over one year's average salary to pay people smugglers to get just as far as Libya. I don't have one year's salary in the bank. My family couldn't scrape together one year's salary on my behalf. The people who are paying smugglers (and believe me, the Eritrean regime is deeply, deeply unpleasant) are people with serious skills and creativity: those are just the sort of people Eritrea will need to rebuild themselves. The doctors and nurses from West Africa, trying to come over here for a better life for them and their kids - of course I understand it: but is is moral and just we take the skilled staff those countries desperately need?
I have a really good friend in Uganda - her son is one of my god-children - and she's desperate to come to the UK. She wants to come here because she knows that you don't have to pay a bribe to get a job, you don't have to pay school fees for your children, and you can visit the doctor when you're ill, instead of relying on the witch doctor because you can pay him in grain instead of money. She's a fantastic woman, who only wants to work hard to better her family: she can't even get a visa to visit, because she's clearly at risk of over-staying by FCO standards. The bottom line is- it sucks, but the world isn't fair, or just. The only people getting rich from Calais are the organised criminals, who are raking it in. It's morally reprehensible to encourage people to spend their life savings, and risk their own LIVES, to be smuggled to Europe, by relocating everyone within the camp who wants to to the UK. That will lead to further deaths, not to mention draining countries of their most valuable resources - their resourceful, hard-working and creative individuals.
I know I'm never going to convince you that this isn't a black and white issue: you seem very passionate and idealistic - perhaps you could focus your passion towards seeking just solutions to the inequalities that lead people to risk everything to leave their homelands in search of a "better life"? It's a bigger issue than Calais, and a bigger issue than immigration to Britain - solving that problem is like putting a plaster on an amputated limb. Only by addressing - and attacking - the root causes will people's lives be saved, and their welfare preserved. There are plenty of groups, organisations and activists working towards these ends - but there is always room for one more. I understand your frustration and passion to do something - but you are focussing your drive on the wrong areas if you truly want to make a genuine and lasting difference.