2月19日VOA聽力：英國在歐盟去留題目或激發移民危急
“London Calling” the graffiti at the so-called JungleCamp in Calais where around 4,000 migrants live inmakeshift tents and shipping containers, desperateticket to Britain.
Under a 2003 agreement, British border checks areperformed on French soil in Calais, which keeps themigrants in France.
Speaking Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that deal would be threatened ifBritons voted to leave the European Union.
“There are a lot of opposition politicians in France who would love an excuse to tear up thattreaty and would like the border not to be in France, but to be in Britain and I don't want togive people an excuse to do that.”
Border police and migrants play a constant game of cat and mouse in Calais's port.
Migrants try to sneak into trucks as they board ferries bound for Britain or even break into thetunnel that carries trains beneath the Channel.
There is also growing tension between migrants and local public.
Members of the anti-Islam group PEGIDA which was founded in Germany, attempted to stage amarch in Calais Saturday, despite local authorities banning all public protests.
“These people do not want the common good;they just want to exploit poverty and angerand they have no place in Calais.”
In recent weeks, the migrant camps have been hit by snow and winter storms.
Doctors Without Borders, the only major charity working around Calais, says conditions at onecamp near the town of Dunkirk desperately need to be improved.
“There are about 2,500 people living there at the moment, mainly Kurds from Iraq and fromSyria.
And the conditions in that camp are really horrific.
People are living in this kind of muddy wasteland.
There are rats; the people are getting scabies because of poor hygiene.”
Doctors without Borders successfully lobbied for a new camp to be built in Dunkirk, which is dueto open later this month.
The longer-term fate of the camps, and of its residents, could depend on Britain's choice widelyexpected later this year to stay or leave the European Union.
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