Truckers, farmers and locals in the French city of Calais are blocking the roadways in protest. They're pressuring the government to dismantle a massive makeshift migrant camp. 

The protest began at dawn Monday-a slow convoy of trucks and tractors, impeding traffic along the main highway toward the Port of Calais.

Truckers, farmers, businesses and residents say they're fed up with crime and lawlessness that they blame on migrants living in the notorious camp known as the Jungle.

"They are increasingly aggressive. We leave in the morning. We don't know how we are going to return in the evening because of the rocks and metal sticks being thrown at us," said Blaise Paccou, truck driver.

"We find refugees in our farms, in our plots of land, wrecking crops, there are thefts in our farms. We feel that the government and state are giving up and have completely forgotten us," said Damien Van Haeche, farmer.

Many migrants are desperate to make their way from Calais across the English channel. Some try to hide on trucks heading through the Eurotunnel-or even force their way onto them. Truckers say migrants damage vehicles and destroy cargo.

The demonstrators say they're prepared to continue the protest for days until the government sets a date to dismantle the Jungle. But the camp houses around 7,000 people and the French Interior Ministry hasn't proposed a plan to re-locate them.

"I have said that I will not give any dates, because on such an issue you have to work with a sense of urgency but also with an awareness of the need for a plan to carry this out," said Bernard Cazeneuve, French Interior Minister.

"Where the people should go Because they don't have a house, they don't have places, because the winter is coming, raining will start, we're out of the summer, where the people should go," said Abdul Ahmad, Afghan migrant.

Many of the protesters say they're not racist or unsympathetic. They just want French and British leaders to come up with a timetable for addressing their concerns.