article_snippet: It is estimated that there are around 2,000 men, women and children sleeping rough in the town hoping to cross the channel into the UK.
article_snippet: But yesterday critics feared the move would only exacerbate the problem with charity workers predicting the move would take the women given beds an average of three months to sneak into the UK.
article_snippet: Perhaps an average of three months for women without children before women manage to get to England.’
article_snippet: But the British government has long argued that such measures will only increase the numbers of displaced people congregating in the area with the aim of getting onto lorries crossing to Dover.
highlights_snippet: Up to 2,000 migrants have been living in Calais shanty towns for months .
  