Saturday, August 26, 2006
Illegal immigration in Eastern and Southern Europe
Lithuania has border problems too. Illegals attempting to get into other European Union countries, enter through Russia and Belarus and get tangled up with authorities in Lithuania where they are detained. These illegals don't get along with each other. There are also ethnic Russians who have converted to Islam who are causing concern because they join terrorist groups but are hard to spot (some countries can profile). Russian is a second language in several east European countries so they can easily mingle.
Southern Europe gets illegals via the Canary Islands. On the news recently:
"Belarus has borders with EU states Latvia and Lithuania as well as Poland, and illegal immigration across the three borders has become a serious problem for the Belarus authorities.
But this week most attention remained focused on flows of immigrants by sea across the EU's southern border into the Canary Islands from the west coast of Africa, and into the Italian island of Lampedusa from Libya.
Several thousand migrants in frail boats have made the crossings in the past week. About 60 are missing presumed drowned after two boats sank off Lampedusa last Sunday, one of them after being accidentally rammed by a ship of the Italian coast guard.
The Red Cross says that more than 100,000 would-be immigrants are waiting in Senegal for the chance to make a crossing. Unemployment in Senegal is more than 40 per cent." (New Zealand Herald)
Southern Europe gets illegals via the Canary Islands. On the news recently:
"Belarus has borders with EU states Latvia and Lithuania as well as Poland, and illegal immigration across the three borders has become a serious problem for the Belarus authorities.
But this week most attention remained focused on flows of immigrants by sea across the EU's southern border into the Canary Islands from the west coast of Africa, and into the Italian island of Lampedusa from Libya.
Several thousand migrants in frail boats have made the crossings in the past week. About 60 are missing presumed drowned after two boats sank off Lampedusa last Sunday, one of them after being accidentally rammed by a ship of the Italian coast guard.
The Red Cross says that more than 100,000 would-be immigrants are waiting in Senegal for the chance to make a crossing. Unemployment in Senegal is more than 40 per cent." (New Zealand Herald)
# posted by Norma : 8/26/2006 10:53:00 AM
