Increasing numbers of Albanians are risking their lives to reach the UK by sea and without renewed hope at home and better cooperation from abroad, they will keep coming.
After driving from Albania across Europe to Belgium and then France, he waited in a camp for a signal it was time to leave.He is one of more than 12,000 Albanians who have illegally crossed to England in small boats this year."They came, helped us and took us to the shore," he said.'If I had the chance, I'd go right now to England'
They're tempting offers for many in northeast Albania, the most deprived corner of one of Europe's poorest countries.Alex, whose name has been changed, is among thousands who paid smugglers to take him to the UK, where he worked illegally for years before being deported."Here doesn't have no jobs, no nothing... and you're going to work like 10 hours for £10, basically so it's no life here.
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