GETTY Migrants are refusing to live in new accommodation because of fingerprint checks

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Terrified migrants are refusing to enter a new 1,500 bed container camp because they need to give their fingerprints to French authorities in order to do so. An EU agreement, called the Dublin Regulation, states that the country where a migrant is first officially registered becomes their "point of entry", and they cannot apply for asylum in any other nation.

Migrants in the Jungle, which is just 20 miles from Dover, are so desperate to come to Britain that they are avoiding any contact with the hand scanner, made by French company Zalix, because it would prove they had passed through France and so they would be sent back if they were caught trying to enter Britain. And if a migrant's finger prints given at Calais match those of an individual in another EU country, they will be deported back to their point of entry.

GETTY The new container camp built for the migrants

One migrant, called Khan, who lives in the 9,000 people strong Jungle camp, said: "The container camp is safer, but people don't trust the container fingerprints." The French government and Calais officials have fuelled the refugees' deportation fears by refusing to deny claims that the container camp is essentially a glorified detainment centre. Another migrant, called Ali, said: "Everybody is really suspicious."

GETTY Migrants are stuck in the squalid jungle over fears of being deported from the new camp

The container camp has a single entrance where residents open the hand scanner, which is enclosed in a grey plastic box. The migrant types in an access code, places their hand on a palm reader and if the code and print match, the scanner unlocks a turnstile. Inside the newly-built container camp, migrants can lock their cabins to protect their belongings.

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