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LONDON — Britain hopes a four-metre-high concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed, and stop migrants reaching the U.K. from the northern French port of Calais.

Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill announced this week that a one-kilometre-long barrier will be built as part of a $29-million security package agreed to by Britain and France. He told lawmakers on Tuesday that its construction along the main highway to the port would start “very soon.”

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“We’ve done the fence, now we are doing a wall,” he said.

Thousands of people, most from the Middle East and Africa, have made long and dangerous journeys to Calais, hoping to reach Britain by stowing away on trucks and trains through the Channel Tunnel.

Many live in an overcrowded camp known as “the jungle,” which French authorities have vowed to dismantle.