Photo: AP
[From article]
After fleeing their homes in places like Sudan and Afghanistan, migrants gathered in the northern French port city of Calais endure another kind of misery in a huge and squalid makeshift camp or in scattered open-air outposts.
Each night, they try to finish the final 31 miles (50 kilometers) of their journey by sneaking across the English Channel to settle in Britain.
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Photo: AP
At dusk, migrants converge in fields or on highways in a bid to sneak through Eurotunnel's security net, cutting holes in fences, or climbing over them, and trying to outsmart security forces. Like shadows, they walk train tracks leading to the mouth of the tunnel.
Each night, they try to finish the final 31 miles (50 kilometers) of their journey by sneaking across the English Channel to settle in Britain.
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Photo: AP
At dusk, migrants converge in fields or on highways in a bid to sneak through Eurotunnel's security net, cutting holes in fences, or climbing over them, and trying to outsmart security forces. Like shadows, they walk train tracks leading to the mouth of the tunnel.
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AP Photos: Calais migrants endure misery of 'jungle' camps
August 13, 2015
Yahoo News
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Migrants waited outside a registration office for asylum seekers in Berlin last month.
AP Photos: Calais migrants endure misery of 'jungle' camps
August 13, 2015
Yahoo News
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Migrants waited outside a registration office for asylum seekers in Berlin last month.
Photo Credit Sean Gallup/Getty Images
[From article]
In the first half of this year alone, more than 179,000 people applied for asylum in Germany, a country of about 80 million. That is an increase of 132 percent over the same period in 2014, with Syrians the largest group, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said.
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That same night, in nearby Dresden, a group of 50 people staged a demonstration against a tent city, hastily set up by the state to temporarily shelter hundreds of asylum-seekers. The Courage Against the Right group has counted 89 such demonstrations this year, many organized by local groups with names like Freital Defends Itself that have sprung up in cities and towns where empty office buildings and hotels have been converted into hostels for new arrivals.
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Right-wing parties in Denmark are seeking to clamp down on the number of people coming in, while Hungary is pushing ahead with plans to build a 13-foot-high barbed-wire fence along its border with Serbia, despite criticism from its European Union partners.
The Czech government has defended the right of the police to detain illegal migrants. Last week, its president, Milos Zeman, responded to a revoltamong migrants held in a guarded facility by saying, “No one invited you here,” and, “If you don’t like it, leave.”
[From article]
In the first half of this year alone, more than 179,000 people applied for asylum in Germany, a country of about 80 million. That is an increase of 132 percent over the same period in 2014, with Syrians the largest group, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said.
[. . .]
That same night, in nearby Dresden, a group of 50 people staged a demonstration against a tent city, hastily set up by the state to temporarily shelter hundreds of asylum-seekers. The Courage Against the Right group has counted 89 such demonstrations this year, many organized by local groups with names like Freital Defends Itself that have sprung up in cities and towns where empty office buildings and hotels have been converted into hostels for new arrivals.
[. . .]
Right-wing parties in Denmark are seeking to clamp down on the number of people coming in, while Hungary is pushing ahead with plans to build a 13-foot-high barbed-wire fence along its border with Serbia, despite criticism from its European Union partners.
The Czech government has defended the right of the police to detain illegal migrants. Last week, its president, Milos Zeman, responded to a revoltamong migrants held in a guarded facility by saying, “No one invited you here,” and, “If you don’t like it, leave.”
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