Migrants stand on a hill overlooking the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, northern France, as smoke rises on Oct. 26. France began the mass evacuation Monday of the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle," a mammoth project to erase the humanitarian blight on its northern border, where thousands fleeing war or poverty have lived in squalor, most hoping to sneak into Britain.

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