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In 2021, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović urged Greece to put an end to pushbacks of migrants because "member states cannot satisfy themselves that they are not sending individuals back in violation of, for example, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the refoulement prohibition in the UN ...
For the first half of the twentieth century, immigration mostly flowed outwards from Greece. At the turn of the century, the majority of Greek immigrants migrated to the United States; from the 1950s to the 1970s, migration flowed towards other European countries, mainly the Federal Republic of Germany, where there was a labor shortage in the rebuilding process after the second world war.
Since the early 1990s, many illegal immigrants have come to Greece from Eastern European and Southeast European countries, Africa and South Asia. The Greek Police dismantled several mafia organizations and arrested members of the 17 November terrorist group [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They organized security for the 2004 Olympic Games in 2016. [ 3 ]
By 2012, it was estimated that more than 1 million illegal immigrants entered Greece. [127] [128] The evidence now indicates that nearly all illegal immigration to the European Union flows through the country's porous borders. In 2010, 90 percent of all apprehensions for unauthorized entry into the European Union took place in Greece, compared ...
Illegal emigration is departure from a country in violation of emigration laws. Countries often seek to regulate who departs a country for diverse reasons, such as stopping criminals from leaving, preventing labor shortages and capital flight , and averting brain drain .
Greece's European Union membership, coupled with a shared border with Turkey, meant the country saw massive flows of illegal immigrants looking to enter the EU. Traffickers also used Greece not only as a destination but also as a transit stop and a source country where even Greek women were prostituted on the way to Western Europe. [1]
To them, illegal immigrants are a monolithic, protected class. The Left’s ideological blindness leads them to defend even the most despicable criminals because acknowledging their guilt would ...
Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015. Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin.