On Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, French authorities began removing residents from the southern portion of the so-called “Jungle of Calais,” a refugee camp that has long served as a way station for a shifting population of several thousand migrants hoping to reach England via the Channel Tunnel, whose entrance is nearby. The French government says that it acted because conditions in the camp, always deplorable, had declined further as the number of residents increased in recent months.
