Until October 26, perched on the French coast of the English Channel, the “Jungle” refugee camp housed over 6,000 migrants. Living conditions were awful.

Today however, the Jungle is closed, and its previous inhabitants are in better accommodations. That’s a victory for human morality, but it’s also good for British security. While it was open, the jungle gave ISIS—also known as ISIL and Daesh—a jump-off point to attack the U.K. In recent years, Britain has spent millions of pounds improving security around the Jungle. Their fear was that ISIS suspects might join with human smugglers to enter Britain covertly. As I’ve explained, “northern France remains infested with well-organized, well-funded human-smuggling groups. Like their Mexican counterparts, they care little for anything but hard cash—and Daesh external-operations units have an abundance of it.”