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Calais Move: Kilometre-Long Wall and Year endu.k

calais move: Calais 'jungle' move denounced by some in French villages French president vows to close Calais migrant camp by year endU.K. to build kilometre-long wall to keep migrants out Mixed messages and rumours' French authorities are poised to demolish the squalid tent city known as "the Jungle" as early as next Monday, according to CBC. It estimated there are between 7,000 and 10,000 migrants living in the camp, and many of them are expected to be rehoused in immigration facilities throughout France, but officials have yet to tell residents how and when the operation will take place. He covered his face with a red scarf and would only provide his last name, Zazai. Zazai, a 24-year-old Afghan migrant, doesn't know what will happen to him once French authorities close the Calais migrant camp. "There a lot more tension than usual here because people don't know what going to be happening," said volunteer Caroline Gregory, who has spent much of the past year in the camp with the charity Calais Action. "There a lot of mixed messages and rumours going around," Gregory said. Eviction notices have been posted on makeshift shops, from the one offering cellphone repairs to another selling three naan breads for a euro. While no one living here knows with certainty when they'll have to leave for good, signs abound that the end is near. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.