Article: Blunkett says Sangatte camp provides easy prey for people smugglers

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Dateline: LONDON Home Secretary David Blunkett, who is pressing France to close the Sangatte refugee camp near the Channel tunnel, said Tuesday said that people traffickers found a host of easy prey at the camp.

Speaking ahead of a meeting with French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy about the Red Cross camp, Blunkett said Britain was committed to breaking the international networks of human smugglers.

"The traffickers are ready to exploit any opportunity and those in the camp at Sangatte are easy prey," Blunkett said.

"This situation cannot continue and the first of my two meetings with the French interior minister later today will make a start in ...

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