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The buses are here. Enough for all of the remaining unaccompanied children. Off in the distance, many tiny UK immigration officers, freshly off a coach from London, trundle their suitcases towards the container camp. There will be one responsible for each coach of children. Children with family in the UK have a high chance of asylum after processing in a CAO in France.

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Salvaged books

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Police presence. Everyone is “free to leave” but with nowhere to go. Volunteers are handing out water and biscuits to everybody.

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France’s “Jungle” refugee camp is being dismantled — and residents may have nowhere to go

The French government has officially begun dismantling the infamous “Jungle” migrant camp in the French city of Calais, which houses roughly 6,000 people and has been a potent symbol of Europe’s refugee crisis.

About 2,000 of the camp’s residents, most of whom are from Africa and Afghanistan, left on buses voluntarily on Monday. Hundreds more have been following them out of the camp on Tuesday, the second full day of the operation.

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