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“The 11 of us who were abandoned in the street in Spain have pledged to stay together,” he said. He was one of a group of 11 Syrian people who were forcibly removed from the UK by the Home Office and sent to Spain this month, because all had previously been fingerprinted there. The man said they were still on the bus after three hours but “we have not been told where they are taking us”.

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Now there are 16 asylum seekers on the bus with a driver and four police officers.” “We were told we had to leave our tents and sleeping bags behind and could just take our bags with us. “No violence was used by the police,” he said. “It was important to get the migrants out before … the winter period.”Ī man who was in the Calais camp told the Guardian police officers arrived at about 7am, rounded people up and put them on buses. The migrants are living in this forested area in extremely difficult conditions,” Le Franc said.

“In my view, this is above all an operation to give people a safe haven. “We want to avoid a concentration and a new gathering point in Calais,” Louis Le Franc, the government’s top official for the northern Pas-de-Calais department, said at the scene.Ībout 150 of the evacuated migrants will be brought to reception centres in Pas-de-Calais, a further 150 to other departments in northern France, and the remaining 500 or so to other regions of the country. Many of those trying to make it to the UK are from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and countries in Africa, fleeing poverty, persecution or war. The British government has called the high numbers who made the illegal crossing this summer unacceptable. Government to make it easier for vulnerableīritain has repeatedly pressed Emmanuel Macron’s government to do more to prevent people leaving France. The British government contributed to a £17m joint Anglo-Frenchįrom getting close lorries arriving at the port.īut charities say extra security does not Whom intend to claim asylum elsewhere in Europe.

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Plus who arrived in Europe in 2017, the vast majority of Gathered here are tiny compared with the 100,000. The 1,000 or so refugees currently living in Calais andĭunkirk represent a very small proportion of refugeesĪlthough the situation in Northern France attractsĪttention because it is at the UK border, the numbers UK or have some level of English language skills. Many asylum seekers have relatives or friends in the Some pay people-smugglers to get them into lorries parked near the port while those who have no money try to conceal themselves in moving trucks.

Periodically the French authorities attempt to prevent them from coming but asylum seekers continue to arrive. Refugees have been gathering in Calais on their way to the UK for decades.

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