Illegal migrant crossings into EU on the rise, says Frontex

According to the EU’s official border police agency, Frontex, there have been 86,000 illegal border crossings into the bloc detected since January of this year.

This figure does not include individuals fleeing from Ukraine to the EU through border crossing points, and it represents 82% more illegal crossings than were seen during the same period last year.

In May of this year alone, 23,500 illegal migrants were detected by the agency.

The majority of those illegal migrants detected entered the bloc through the central and eastern Mediterranean, as well as the Balkans.

Individuals detected hailed from regions such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Nigeria, and the Congo.

The figures also count migrants who may have been detected more than once after multiple crossings or attempted crossings.

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