Fleeing by the Millions
Migrants sit on their belongings in the back of a truck as it is driven through a dusty road in the desert town of Agadez, Niger, on May 25, 2015. African migrants in overcrowded pickup trucks, encouraged by social media messages from friends who survived the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, set off from Agadez, an ancient trading town on the edge of the Sahara, to cross Niger in the uncertain journey towards Europe via Libya, where the collapse of the government has offered an open door for smugglers. The groups, mostly young men escaping grinding poverty in neighboring Benin or Burkina Faso, face bandits and often have to pay bribes en route, on top of the hefty payments to people smugglers.
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Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters
French gendarmes round up and evict migrants who were living in a camp near the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France, on June 2, 2015. Police evicted around 140 migrants from two makeshifts camps.
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Philippe Huguen / AFP / Getty Images
Immigrants sit in a cargo truck after being rescued by federal authorities at a checkpoint on a road that connects Tehuantepec and Oaxaca, in Oaxaca state, Mexico on February 19, 2015. Federal police rescued 77 immigrants, 54 of them in the state of Oaxaca and 23 in Veracruz, who were heading to the United States hidden in an overcrowded cargo truck, showing signs of dehydration, according to local media.
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Reuters
A Salvadoran father carries his son while running next to another migrant as they try to board a train heading to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, Mexico, on June 1, 2015.
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Edgard Garrido / Reuters
Pakistani immigrants row their raft, which was drifting out of control, in rough seas between Greece and Turkey, early May 30, 2015. Ahmad, one of the immigrants aboard the raft, said that they were rowing for over five hours before eventually reaching a beach in central Kos town. According to local media, an average of over 200 immigrants have been arriving in Kos every day in the last two months.
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
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