The problem of illegal immigration to Europe has been going on for decades, but there has been a crucial increase in the number of illegal border crossings in 2015. From Frontex data, the EU Border Agency, it appears that there were over 1.8 million illegal border crossings at the time, which is the highest score ever. Since then, the number of illegal overruns has fallen, but in 2023 nearly 380 000 people entered the EU illegally, which is the highest number since 2016.
Checks will last at least 1 more year
I'm not ready to accept those numbers. said Minister of the Interior of Germany, Nancy Faeser.
On Monday, during a gathering with national Police Chief Dieter Romann in Rostock, Faeser announced that border controls would proceed until the number of illegal migrants decreased significantly. Originally, the controls at the border with Poland were to expire in December of this year.
In the national Ministry anger is besides increasing that refugees arriving in Europe are inactive distributed very unevenly – noted the diary portal Sueddeutsche Zeitung. respective countries take on a large part of the consequences of migration. Faeser announced that the controls presently in force at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland will proceed until the entry into force of the Common European Asylum System, which was adopted in spring..
Checks may expire at the earliest 1 year, although further deadlines are not excluded. The national Police have so far recorded the most illegal entrances through Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland.
Non-optimistic statistics
Problems with illegal immigrants are mainly due to instability in West Africa, where the number of migrants has tripled, mainly by sea. More than 50,000 attempts to cross the border than in 2022 have been recorded in the mediate of the Mediterranean basin alone, and a evidence of about 25,000 attempts have been recorded on the West African way leading to the Canary Islands. Among migrants, only all tenth is simply a female or child.
In Poland, the biggest threat associated with illegal migration concerns the border with Belarus, but any foreigners besides effort to enter the country by air, utilizing falsified or another documents. In the first 4th of that year, 588 specified people were revealed, while in the same period of last year there were just over 300 of them – according to the Border defender data.
Of the 588 foreigners who arrived illegally in Poland by cruise aircraft, 472 (in the same period of the erstwhile year – 226) flew from outside Europe. However, 116 people (at the same time last year – 86) arrived from the Schengen area, where they had previously, usually illegally, gotten in.
