Calais: Witness the Desperate Migrants in France Hoping to Reach the U.K.

An aerial view shows a field named "new jungle" with tents and makeshift shelters where migrants and asylum seekers stay in Calais, northern France, on July 21, 2015.

Pascal Rossignol—Reuters

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Migrants wait near a motorway leading to the ferry port to cross the English channel on July 29, 2015.

Thibault Camus—AP

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Migrants wait near a motorway leading to a ferry port to cross the English channel on July 29, 2015.

Thibault Camus—AP

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Migrants wait near a motorway leading to the ferry port to cross the English channel on July 29, 2015.

Thibault Camus—AP

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A French policeman signals to migrants to leave the road as lorries queue in Calais on July 29, 2015.

Pascal Rossignol—Reuters

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Migrants who successfully crossed the Eurotunnel terminal walk on the side of the railroad as they try to reach a shuttle to Great Britain, in Frethun, northern France, on July 28, 2015.

Philippe Huguen—AFP/Getty Images

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A TGV high speed train passes behind razor-wire fencing close to the Channel Tunnel site in Calais, northern France, on July 29, 2015.

Pascal Rossignol—Reuters

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A general view of the Eurotunnel train tracks at the entrance of the channel tunnel in Coquelles, near Calais, France, on July 29, 2015.

Yoan Valat—EPA

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July 29, 2015 1:19 PM EDT