GETTY Refugees rejected from a newly opened centre have set up a makeshift camp in Paris

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Hundreds of paperless immigrants are said to be living in the "sordid" refugee camp, which is located some 100m from the newly opened, men-only porte de la Chapelle reception centre, along the strip of l'avenue du Président-Wilson – a major road in the city. A Paris official had previously been quoted as saying that, thanks to the new shelter, makeshift migrant camps were no longer springing up in the capital.

But, contrary to the official's statement, the migrants have been forced to live on the street and share a “tiny tent with two or three people” after being repeatedly turned away from the 400-bed centre. Ali, a 23-year-old migrant from Afghanistan, said he had been refused entry into the new shelter on three separate occasions.

GETTY The newly opened Chapelle reception centre is located around 100m away

GETTY Officials have previously said that refugees are no longer springing up in Paris

He said: “Lines start forming at around 6am. More than 200 migrants queue outside the shelter each day, but only 80 people are let in.

Until we’re given a bed, we have no choice but to go back to our tent Ali, migrant from Afghanistan

"There just isn’t enough space to house everyone. And until we’re given a bed, we have no choice but to go back to our tents.” The Paris reception centre cost French taxpayers $5.5million (€6.5m) and is located in a vast concrete warehouse on a former industrial zone.

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