Many migrants have paid smugglers to get them to Calais: one migrant from Egypt, a politics graduate, told The Guardian that he "paid $3,000 to leave Egypt, risked my life on a boat to Italy spending days at sea" and that in one month he had tried 20 times to reach England; another, an Eritrean woman with a one-year-old child, had paid £1,825 – and her husband the same – to sail to Italy, but her husband had drowned during the journey.
為了被載運到加來，許多移民曾付款給安排偷渡者：一個來自埃及、身分為政治學畢業生的移民告訴衛報，他「支付了3000美元以離開埃及，冒著生命危險乘小船來到意大利，在一個月中嘗試前往英國20次」；另一位有個一歲孩子的厄立特里亞婦女支付了1825英鎊（和她的丈夫一樣）前往意大利，但她的丈夫在旅途中溺死了。