Earlier this month, Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to take 20,000 people from camps in the Syrian region.
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They are part of Europe’s wider crisis that has seen 500,000 refugees enter the European Union since the beginning of the year. Critics of the European Union refugee program say Poland’s first obligation should be toward ethnic Poles expelled from their homes under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and to their descendants.
A 20-year-old Iraqi refugee who was apparently trying to get across the English Channel to Britain has been found crushed to death in a truck, French authorities have said. Two family members were found “safe and sound”, the source added.
A truck driver found at 08:00 local time (0600 GMT) a lifeless body of a man “probably crushed by pallets”, Calais prefecture said in a statement.
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An estimated 5,000 migrants displaced from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around Calais.
