Macron’s Mixed Message in Calais

Expand Migrants in Calais gather in the rain for a clothing distribution in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Calais, France. © Futuro Berg/Help Refugees, October 2017 It’s the middle of winter and six hundred or more asylum seekers and migrants, including more than 100 unaccompanied children, remain camped out in Calais in increasingly dire conditions, exposed to the elements and faced with routine police harassment and frequent violence. Many are desperate to join family and friends in the United Kingdom; others are there for lack of any better option in France. President Emmanuel…

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