This summer, a striking, often tragic story has been playing itself out on the outskirts of Calais in France, at the entrance to the tunnel that connects the European mainland to Great Britain. Thousands of migrants, African and Middle Eastern, have been trying to sneak onto the trucks and trains that traverse the tunnel, cutting through wire fences and evading the police along the way. Ten have died, but enough have succeeded for many more to keep trying, while politicians on both sides of the Channel point fingers and a refugee camp outside Calais remains swollen with would-be subjects of Elizabeth II.
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