article_snippet: The number of UK-bound African and Asian migrants in Calais has dropped by two thirds this winter as unprecedented numbers have succeeded in dodging border police and sneaking into Britain.
article_snippet: The homeless migrants pay Albanian people-smugglers hundreds of pounds to be ferried south of Calais and loaded into lorries at motorway rest areas .
article_snippet: Local newspaper Nord Littoral reported at the weekend that 'It is difficult to estimate the number of migrants present in Calais but one thing is certain : the number of migrants present in Calais has decreased significantly'.
article_snippet: The homeless migrants in Calais pay Albanian people-smugglers hundreds of pounds to be ferried south of Calais and loaded into lorries at motorway rest areas .
article_snippet: Pessimists at Calais predict that numbers of UK bound refugees will increase again to 300 plus during the spring and summer as new arrivals from Libya fleeing persecution by Islamic extremists start arriving .
article_snippet: Numbers increased dramatically last summer as waves of Eritreans and Ethiopians hit the French Channel coast and set their sights on UK.
article_snippet: The other is that migrants disheartened by months of living in cold and squalid tents have opted to apply for asylum and have been transferred to state run hostels as far afield as Burgundy, hundreds of miles south of Calais.
article_snippet: A spokesman for the French Immigration department said, ' Since September 2014 more than 400 registered as applying for asylum and 45 percent of those have been given protection'.
article_snippet: At the beginning of February 60 Africans were ferried southwards from Calais and put up in a former Gendarmerie at the town of Pouilly en Auxois in Burgundy south east of Paris.
article_snippet: Pouilly is just one of dozens of villages all over France which have been designated to accommodate asylum seekers whilst asylum seekers applications are being processed .
highlights_snippet: Number of migrants reaching Britain from France has soared this winter .
  