GETTY The situation in Calais will only get worse, an MEP has warned

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UKIP's Mike Hookem said the entire coastline of Normandy will need to be turned into a "fortress" to defend our borders as migrant smugglers increasingly target smaller ports with less security. He claimed that mile upon mile of protective fencing will need to be built to protect vital trade routes from the huge influx of migrants heading towards Britain from southern Europe.

France has been reticent about shouldering the financial burden of securing its northern ports, with Britain shelling out £7 million towards state-of-the-art fencing around the port of Calais earlier this year. Now similar measures could be required at nearby Dunkirk and Dieppe, with some Britain-bound migrants travelling as far down the coastline as Le Havre to take advantage of laxer security arrangements.

GETTY Britain could have to shell out to protect other French ports

GETTY Mr Hookem has warned the Jungle Camp will balloon in size again next year

Mr Hookem, who has frequently visited the migrant camps in northern France and was once threatened by a gun-toting smuggler, said he fears the situation will only get worse with Europe's unprecedented refugee crisis set to worsen in the new year. He told Express.co.uk: "Down in Calais it's now known that they [the migrants] are moving towards Dieppe and Dunkirk because they are smaller ports with less security. "The police chief in the area told me that he has just 60 officers investigating immigration crime in an area that stretches from the north coast of France right down to Paris. "When we visited Calais there was new fencing which the port official was very pleased with. But it stretches for only 1.3km, which is nothing because the queues for lorry drivers can stretch back six or seven miles from the entrance to the port."

Mike Hookem MEP Mr Hookem will travel back to the migrant camps around Calais in January

GETTY The Yorkshire MEP says he is expecting violence in the lawless port town to escalate

It's going to get worse UKIP's Mike Hookem

He added: "The CRS [French riot police] have lost control of it, they've lost control of everything. It's going to get worse. How far do we go with the security and with the fencing? Does it become fortress Europe across all of the coast of northern France? "Because at all the small ports they are going to have to build the same kind of fencing and security there. At the back of my mind all the time is the security of British truck drivers who are under massive threat." Mr Hookem also revealed that he is planning to significantly beef up the security surrounding his next trip to Calais in January, because many migrants are becoming increasingly violent. A member of his team was threatened with a gun by when he visited a camp near Dunkirk back in August, whilst migrants armed with iron bars and hammers went on the rampage in Calais during an "unprecedented" riot last week.

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The Yorkshire MEP said: "There's going to be a lot more threat of violence there. I'm expecting it to be worse because the drivers have seen that it's more violent. "We know that the Jungle has increased and I'm expecting more camps along that northern French coast in some of these small ports. "There's a violent element there now. Last time I went we were walking around at 2am and there were migrants everywhere but we felt safe. But that's not the case anymore." Last week Express.co.uk revealed how Mr Hookem is so concerned by what he has seen in northern France he has written to Theresa May asking her to probe allegations of "collusion" between French border guards and people smugglers.