French Crack Down on Migrants

The camp was established after the official Red Cross camp at Sangatte near Calais was closed in 2002
Michel Spingler / AP

Makeshift
The camp was established after the official Red Cross camp at Sangatte near Calais was closed back in 2002. The majority of the people who camped here — mainly migrants from Afghanistan — have strained relations between Britain and France as the migrants were hoping to slip across the English Channel into the U.K.

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