[nomadking]

Originally Posted by jfman

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/05/e...ntl/index.html

The numbers of illegal migrants crossing into the EU has fallen in 2018.

Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq being the main countries people are coming from. Quelle surprise.

Countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan are big places, and as such they will have travelled safely for hundreds of miles within those countries just to get to the border. The large areas also mean that there is plenty of space to find somewhere safe. Even Syria has safe areas, ie the bits under Syrian government control.


If they really have all been counted then they must have registered at that entry point?

Meanwhile, the number of arrivals in Spain via the western Mediterranean route, leaving from Morocco, doubled last year for the second year in a row to 57,000.
Most of the migrants on this route originated from countries in sub-Saharan Africa, although the number of Moroccans has increased in recent months, Frontex said. Many also came from Guinea, Mali and Algeria.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) puts the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe last year at close to 142,000, most of whom made the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea.

So only 8,000 came overland?