CALAIS, France (CNN) - "The Jungle," the notorious makeshift camp set up in the woods on the outskirts of Calais, looks very different to when I was here last in June.

There are only about 200 Afghan men instead of the 600 we saw here last. Many seem to have gotten through to the UK.

Local charity workers tell us that rumors of an imminent closure and total destruction of the camp by French police means the majority of migrants fled in the first week of September.

The raid was rumored to take place Tuesday morning at dawn. We arrived at the camp at 4am, and found a group of 100 or so migrants huddled around a bonfire.

And then the wait began... At 7am, the police arrived - approximately 600 or so.

Local human right protesters formed a circle around the migrants and, as the police swooped in, there were some clashes between the activists and authorities. Read more about the police raid

Some protesters were arrested and carried off violently.

The Afghan migrants did not resist. Many were in tears as they were led away by the police.

The migrants seemed to be processed and separated in groups of minors and adults.

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Scuffling continued between the police and protesters. Then, eventually, the police pushed out the protesters and journalists as they cleared out the camp and blocked it off.

The question now remains as to what the French government will do with the arrested migrants.

The Calais police chief who spoke after the raid maintains that the operation was a success, as the mafia and human traffickers who ran "the Jungle" camp have been stopped.

The police also confirmed the minors would not be sent back to Afghanistan.

The camp has now been bulldozed. While the immediate problem may have been moved out of the Calais area, it is obvious to everyone from the migrants to the activists to the authorities that moving the problem on is not the solution.