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Calais Refugees
''Iraqi refugees at French port dream of England'' -AFP 10/4/07
This is the craziness that is Calais—and five days undercover here posing as an illegal immigrant is enough to make you realise the world has gone mad. It is freezing, I have just arrived at the refugee shanty town and I am among 500 queuing for food served in red plastic containers from a grey cabin in a park just a mile from the port. Included on the refugees' menu is rice, pasta, potatoes and bread—high-energy foods for a lowlife reason. ''The French don't want us here,'' says Iraqi Louis Emad as he tucks into rice, chicken and peas on a barren stretch of wasteland. ''They give us food so we've got enough energy to jump on a lorry for England.''
