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The dark Jungle of Iraqi refugees
BY MITCHELL WU, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE 
Undocumented migrant praying Calais, France"I want to tell [the world] that they should help us," he says. "We cannot stay here." Every evening, at this empty loading dock in Calais, France, charity workers bring him and dozens of other refugees food and tea. The weather here is wet and colder than Paris. With winter approaching, it's only getting worse. Ashraf is still a teenager, but like all the others we talk to, he looks years beyond that. Most of them are from Afghanistan, and in many cases, their stories overlap. They've endured many hardships to get here. They've left families behind and spent all their money. Now they're stranded in Calais. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: England, Feature Stories, Iraq
The number of foreign workers has risen above two million for the first time in Britain, which in 2008 proposed tightening of immigration rules for people from India and other non-EU countries.
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While the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by 44,000 a year since the mid-nineties, the figure for babies born to foreign mothers has risen by 64,000, pushing the overall birthrate to its highest level for 26 years.
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London is home to an estimated 300,000 citizens from the former Soviet Union (International Herald Tribune, Dec. 18, 2006)
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile, Be yourself no matter what they say, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York (Sting)
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1/3 of the 82,000 immigrants who took Britain's citizenship test in 2006 failed (London Sunday Telegraph, Oct. 15, 2006)
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Britain, Belgium and Germany limit citizenship rights to only the first generation born abroad (International Herald Tribune , Sept. 30, 2006)
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2/3 of all immigrants entering the UK in 2005 were from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ((The Northern Echo
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565,000 immigrants entered the UK in 2005 to live for at least a year (The Northern Echo)
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