{"id":1059361,"date":"2021-11-27T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059361"},"modified":"2021-11-27T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:28:32","slug":"european-union-illegal-migrant-border-crossings-up-70-per-cent-in-first-ten-months-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-union-illegal-migrant-border-crossings-up-70-per-cent-in-first-ten-months-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union: Illegal Migrant Border Crossings Up 70 Per Cent in First Ten Months of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuropean-union-illegal-migrant-border-crossings-up-70-per-cent-in-first-ten-months-of-the-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059361&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236680154-e1637962927539-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The European Union border agency Frontex has reported that in the first ten months of 2021, illegal crossings into the political bloc have increased by 70 per cent compared to the same period in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Frontex announced this week that from January to October, there have been a total of 160,000 illegal border crossings recorded into the European Union, with nearly 22,800 last month, alone, representing a 70 per cent jump over last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Central Mediterranean route, in which migrants travel primarily from Tunisia and Libya to Italy, saw the most growth so far this year, with a recorded 55,000 illegal crossings in the first ten months of the year, InfoMigrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infomigrants.net\/en\/post\/36768\/european-union-border-crossings-increased-by-70-frontex\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisian, Bangladeshi, and Egyptian migrants represented the main nationalities using the Central Mediterranean route this year.<\/p>\n<p>Italy, especially the island of Lampedusa, has been inundated with migrant arrivals over the past several months. Lampedusa has seen its migrant reception facility, intended for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/08\/27\/900-migrants-occupy-reception-centre-for-just-250-as-italian-island-sees-more-landings\/\"> just 250 people<\/a>, overcrowded on multiple occasions as authorities were forced to transfer migrants to Sicily and the Italian mainland after their arrival.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a single day in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/686-migrants-dock-in-lampedusa-in-biggest-arrival-in-years\/\">nearly 700 migrants<\/a> arrived on the island, which has become a popular destination for illegal boats due to its proximity to Tunisia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.4852941176471\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Italy Saw Nearly 50k Migrant Arrivals This Year, Up 128% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckL2Oilc52\">https:\/\/t.co\/ckL2Oilc52<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1427939579466711051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The second-largest surge in illegal crossings took part in the Western Balkan route, which saw 48,500 crossings into the European Union this year, an increase of 140 per cent over last year and a massive 840 per cent increase from 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border has also seen a significant increase in migrants attempting to break into the EU over prior years, however, overall numbers have remained low in comparison to other migrant routes.<\/p>\n<p>Both Poland and the European Union have accused Belarus of using migrants in an attempt to engage in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/08\/23\/belarus-now-forcing-migrants-over-border-at-gunpoint-in-hybrid-warfare-bid-to-destabilise-eu\/\">hybrid warfare<\/a>\u201d to destabilise the European Union in response to sanctions enacted against eh country earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the crisis the greatest attempt to destabilise Europe since the Cold War, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/22\/belarus-migration-hybrid-war-is-greatest-attempt-to-destabilise-europe-since-cold-war-says-polish-pm\/\">saying<\/a>: \u201cThis is just the beginning. The dictators will not stop. I want to assure you, Poland will not yield to blackmail and will do everything to stop the evil threatening Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others have predicted that the migrant crisis along the eastern European Union border <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/24\/hybrid-warfare-poland-predicts-long-drawn-out-belarus-border-crisis\/\">could be long and drawn out<\/a>, accusing Belarus of trying to exhaust border forces.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6158940397351\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hybrid Warfare: Poland Predicts Long, Drawn Out Belarus Border Crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k9wxaizlaO\">https:\/\/t.co\/k9wxaizlaO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1463474729717743621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union border agency Frontex has reported that in the first ten months of 2021, illegal crossings into the political bloc have increased by 70 per cent compared to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}