BARCELONA, Spain — Refugees and irregular migrants are pouring into Europe by land, air and sea at the highest levels since 2016, when the war in Syria triggered a refugee crisis.
have arrived in Italy by sea alone since Jan. 1 — a figure three times higher than the same period last year, according to the Italian Interior Ministry — and the number of water crossings toward the U.K. in January and February exceeded 5,600,330,000 illegal crossings into Europe
were detected in 2022, over land routes from the Balkans and via the Mediterranean and the English Channel. That number is 64% higher than in 2021. The rise in migrants traveling to Europe by boat has been accompanied by dramatic reports of deaths at sea. Less than three weeks ago, 79 migrants reportedly drowned when“Last year, [European] countries faced unprecedented challenges at their external borders,” a spokesperson for Frontex told Yahoo News.
With 4 million Ukrainians already receiving legal refuge in Europe, a million additional requests for asylum from Syrians, Afghans, Turks and other foreign nationals were lodged in 2022, according to the EU Agency for Asylum. While only , European countries are finding it difficult to remove those whose applications are denied, often because their home countries won't:"Every year, over 300,000 foreign nationals are ordered to leave the EU because they have entered [illegally] or they are staying irregularly. However, only around 21% of them return back to their home country or to the country from which they traveled to the EU.
“You can only claim asylum if you arrive in Europe,” Luigi Scazzieri, senior research fellow on migration and security issues at the Center for European Reform, told Yahoo News. “If the thrust of Europe’s immigration policy becomes to keep people from arriving in the first place, then that right is being eroded.”
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