Calais crackdown catches illegal immigrants

French police held nearly 200 people without papers in a mass identity check around Calais today.

Calais crackdown catches illegal immigrants

French police held nearly 200 people without papers in a mass identity check around Calais today.

The local government said the sweep was meant to find smugglers and undermine networks of illegal immigrants and among those checked, 194 were in France without permission.

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