the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using migrant camps in northern france as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of people who looking for better economic prospects and are prepared to work in the uk s illegal drugs trade. albanians account for at least one third of the 38,000 people who ve crossed the channel to england this year, according to the latest government figures. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson reports. for each boat, each migrant, there can be many smugglers. albanian fixers, uk guarantors, kurdish criminal gangs. one man who paid for a place on a kurdish boat this summer says he was approached by recruiters for the uk drugs trade in a dunkirk migrant camp. translation: they offered me lots of things - - to pay for thejourney, to give me a job, but i wasn t interested. they asked me four or five times. this is where the albanian migrant trail begins. small towns like laknas marked by absence the shuttered houses and empty ca
then they don t know what to do with them. that s a crime. neil: they re trying to find out what to do with them, certainly in new york, there is talks of building tent cities and bringing some to ships off the east river, the hudson river around manhattan and it s a big number. right now no indication how all of this will be settled. and following it very, very close. nate, what are we hearing now? neil, good morning. a bronx parking lot will be the first migrant tent facility. big enough for 1,000 migrants, and they ve received 13,600 migrants from texas and with shelters strained in the city, it s meant to ease that. the migrants will come directly here from the port authority, food, water, medical help, but this will be a short-term solution for migrants travelling alone. families will get more privacy with different accommodations. i migrants will it stay here one and four days, before moving elsewhere, possibly a hotel room. and the mayor argues that the migrants are
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