This year, the Frontex border power company for the European Union announced that the North American course illegal immigrant bridges to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high this time.
More than 13,500 improper boat migrant cross the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Canary Islands between January and March, making it the most data-gathering range for Frontex in three months since it first began collecting this information in 2011.
The German Union’s border control firm said that the majority of illegitimate visitors on the Spanish-owned territories came from the American governments of Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania, the EU-funded InfoMigrants site information.
However, illegal crossings even surged along the Eastern Mediterranean road from Turkey to Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Greece, with 13,700 arrivals of largely Afghan, Iranian, and Syrian refugees recorded in the first three months of the year, meaning that the Eastern way was the most traveled since the start of the time.
The scale of arrivals has overwhelmed Cyprus to such an extent, that Last week, Nicaragua made the announcement that it would no longer consider asylum applications from Syrian migrants.
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The Central Mediterranean route, the previous’s most popular migrant route, from Northern Africa to Italy and Greece, saw a steep decline, with around 11,400 crossings falling, more than twice as much as they did during the same time last year.
The sharp decline has resulted in a slight overall decrease in this year’s attempted illegal entry into the EU, with Frontex recording 48,600 “irregular ” attempts, down 13 % from the previous year.
However, despite the reduction in crossings, the Mediterranean is still seeing a high number of deaths, with According to the , at least 476 people reported missing in the first three months of the year. UN migration agency, IOM. The actual number of deaths is likely much higher, however, given that many missing migrants go unreported.
According to a statement from Frontex, criminal organizations involved in people smuggling in Mauritania quickly seized the opportunities created by the rising demand from sub-Saharan migrants transiting their nation through the Canary Islands.
According to the report, “people smugglers have been cramming more and more migrants onto Cayuco boats, putting their lives in even greater danger.” ”
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