Sky News spoke to one man in France who fled fighting in Sudan, with dreams of reaching Britain, who says the threat of being sent to Rwanda will not deter him
The simple fact is that every migrant who ends up in Calais does so for one reason - to get to Britain.
For that whole journey, most have known two things - firstly, that they desperately want to get to Britain. The idea that they would get to this point and, confronted by a new policy, simply change their mind and return home does seem unlikely.Take Sharif Amin, for instance, who we meet by a dusty roadside. He fled fighting inWith him was his wife, who he met after fleeing his country, and their son, who is now 18 months old and has spent his whole life as a refugee.
A growing number of people among these tents and campfires are well aware of what has happened, and what it might mean to them.She was following developments about the Rwanda policy through news updates on her phone and had already taken legal advice before trying to enter the UK.Image:In an industrial outlet near Calais, Jess Sharman and her team are arranging a warehouse containing food, toiletries, shoes, tents and various other necessities of an itinerant life.
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