Police Deployed in Calais Amid Influx of Young Migrants

Migrants leave a makeshift camp known as "the jungle" to register at a processing center, near Calais, northern France, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. France began the mass evacuation Monday of the makeshift migrant camp, a mammoth project to erase the humanitarian blight on its northern border, where thousands fleeing war or poverty have lived in squalor, most hoping to sneak into Britain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

PARIS—French police are being deployed to keep order among the young migrants pushing barriers at Calais’ makeshift camp.

Dozens of migrants jumped over railings Tuesday in an attempt to get to the camp’s temporary processing center, the first step to being relocated in France.

Most identified themselves as unaccompanied minors with relatives across the English Channel in the U.K. They had made their way to the gates in the port city very early in the morning.

Migrants, one of them carrying a French flag, walk past French police as they leave a makeshift camp known as "the jungle" to register at a processing center, near Calais, northern France, Oct. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

France is in day two of a weeklong, 6,000-person-strong mass evacuation of the controversial slum-like migrant camp.

Hassan Ali, a 25-year-old Pakistani, said Tuesday he was “excited” to leave — and hoped to return to university and find a job in France, having been unable to get to Britain.