And yet twenty million people call Beijing home, with ever more migrants streaming into the city from the provinces.
Middle-class white homeowners were fleeing to the suburbs, replaced by poor black migrants streaming up from the South.
Struggling with their luggage, they could see dozens of migrants streaming ahead of them to the shoreline.
Last year, more than 1.1 million irregular migrants streamed into Europe with over 850,000 pouring into the continent through Greece.
French security and police have been dispatched to the port where approximately 100 migrants streamed past officers as they attempted to enter the Tunnel overnight.
Not long after the landings in Indonesia another 1,000 migrants streamed from small fishing boats onto the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi.
This situation wasn't helped when the country suddenly found itself on the front lines of a rapidly escalating refugee crisis, with migrants streaming in from Syria and elsewhere — on their way, they hoped, to more prosperous parts of Europe.
They were unveiled at a time when Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing accusations that the welcome she gave last year to migrants streaming to the Continent from Syria and other nations in the Middle East has compromised security.
This situation wasn't helped when the country suddenly found itself on the front lines of a rapidly escalating refugee crisis, with migrants streaming in from Syria and elsewhere on their way, they hoped, to more prosperous parts of Europe.
The tiny republic of Slovenia was the latest to give notice that it was considering a border fence, after more than 110,000 refugees and migrants streamed across its borders in two weeks.
