Tensions mount as record numbers crowd French migrant camp

FILE – In this Aug. 23, 2016 file photo, migrants queue to receive their daily food distribution in a makeshift camp in Calais, northern France. Tempers are rising among migrants squeezed in record numbers into a shrinking slum camp in France’s port city of Calais, where hours-long waiting lines for food and showers and the tightening grip of security forces are leaving emotions raw. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

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As Europe bickers, police fire tear gas on migrants storming border

Stranded refugees and migrants try to ram down part of the border fence during a protest at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni, February 29, 2016. Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis

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Hungary declares emergency, seals border, detains migrants

Hungarian police officers gather at the main border exit between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Hungary are set to introduce much harsher border controls at midnight ó laws that would send smugglers to prison and deport migrants who cut under Hungary’s new razor-wire border fence. The country’s leader was emphatically clear that they were designed to keep the migrants out. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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For Syrian refugees in Italy, Israel remains enemy #1

Syrian refugees at a shelter near Milan. (Rossella Tercatin/The Times of Israel)

Syrian refugees at a shelter near Milan. (Rossella Tercatin/The Times of Israel)

Despite fleeing civil war and exposure to hardships in crossing the Mediterranean, migrants still have energy to bash the Jewish State

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Thousands of refugees arrive in Germany to cheers, ‘welcome’ signs

Refugees show the victory sign behind a bus window as they leave the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, September 5, 2015 (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Refugees show the victory sign behind a bus window as they leave the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, September 5, 2015 (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing war and persecution directed to temporary shelters in public buildings, hotels and army barracks

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