At least it wasn't in the past . . .
It still fucking isn't now, it's not that the French couldn't find some shithole to dump all these people, it's that they
won't. This happened before with Sangatte and before that too.
They want to have a slightly less problem for them, so they leave it there until it becomes intolerable because they keep trying to jump on trains doing 60mph, or hurling rocks at lorries in the hope the British government will eventually roll its fucking eyes and take some people off of them because they're so fucking lazy.
It's 1,300km from the border with Italy (where most of the fugees land) to Calais, they have plenty of time to stop them, assess them, and then throw them back if they could be bothered, but they can't. The Police in Calais were fucking gaulic shrugging
so hard at one point the people of Calais were arming themselves to drive off violent fugees trying to get food, steal stuff to sell, or get onto lorries bound for Blightly.
It's why we've footed the bill for a lot of the anti-fugee security, because the French Police are generally as competent as they were back during the Paris attacks.