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It is interesting that, on my visit to Calais, the sous-préfète—the subprefect—of the Calais region told us that every single person who they thought was going to attempt to cross the English Channel in a small boat was offered the choice of seeking asylum in France. Some of them did, but it was made available to all of them. We have to concern ourselves with why it is that people come to us at the end of the line when other countries are accepting, in many cases, far more people per capita than we are accepting in our own country.