How about we house our own homeless in them first.
Plenty of ex soldiers living on the streets after serving THIS country.

That is an astounding claim Stirling, and suggests a devotion to the concept of the nation state which is almost religious.

If you live in Northern Iraq, or Eastern Syria, your state - as in who claims authority over you - will almost definitely have changed at least twice in your lifetime. You will also most probably have lost a family member to one of the civil wars that have ensued in your state.

What you are saying would have truly revolutionary consequences on people's lives. If you were Jewish but you were born in Nazi Germany, are you to accept the responsibility of that state in handling you and hope for no external intevention? If you were a freedman in Haiti after the Haitian revolution, do you still remain the French state's responsibility because you were born in chains in one of its colonies? Likewise, if you are a child now born in the region controlled by IS, are you saying you have absolutely no right to expect help from the outside world, even if it condemnds you to a life of rape, forced marriage, violence and seclusion?

Your point on why I'm not out there helping is particularly bonkers. I don't have the money to get a flight to Syria, let alone finance an aid mission, and that's why I do what I can within the environment around me: discuss it with people, support people who I see are trying to help, and of course waste hours of my life on a football forum debating in detail what UK foreign policy should be. I think that was actually Nelson Mandela's background before going in to politics too!

It's people with your wooly minded train of thought that has pretty much caused this problem in the first place. The last Labour government should be charged with deliberate dereliction of duty as regards to abandoning our borders. As for 'creating their own working community in Calais', well I think you should ask the people of Calais what they think of having all these people camped on their doorstep? I bet you would get a very different point of view.

Three parts to the problem: The French won't properly police their own territory - The migrants present a threat to British (and other) drivers - We don't need any more people with their skill sets than we've already got.
Three parts to the solution: Retake Calais - Cull the vermin - Begin sending our anti-social thickos to Europe in revenge.

Hardly the same is it? The Jews were being rounded up and gassed, these are economic migrants. They can go somewhere else, we're full. We have enough of our own unskilled labour looking for jobs and they should come first, on the jobs front and on the housing front too.

A good friend of mine is a HGV driver and regularly goes to the continent. He always has problems in the port of Calais with the chippy illegals now wielding baseball bats, knives and threatening lorry drivers. When the hell is something going to be done about this? As Angela Merkel said, they can't all come here (I'd be happy if none of them came personally).
Why do we even want people like this here? The whole infastructure of the country is creaking under the weight of this population explosion. It started under Labour when they abandoned the borders, the Tories said they were going to sort it out but there seems to be no stemming the flow. Just where is all this madness going to end? We have eastern Europeans living in public toilets, Roma gypsies using a memorial for the 7/7 victims as a clothes line.
Controlled immigration is fine but this is utter chaos! How do we know anything about the people who are streaming in by the thousands?