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Greece Plans to Build Controversial Wall on Border With Turkey
Loading ...he Greek government says it plans to build a fence along part of its border with Turkey to try to stop illegal immigrants from crossing into the country.
Greek authorities say more than 100,000 illegal immigrants arrived in the country last year. Most crossed the Evros River that separates Greece and Turkey – and the European Union from the outside world.
The Greek government says those numbers can no longer be tolerated and has announced plans to construct an eight-mile long fence along the most vulnerable part of the border.
But the announcement was met with a warning from European Union Commission spokesperson Michele Cercone.
“Fences and walls have in the past proven to be really short term measures that do not really help addressing and managing the migratory pressures in more consolidated and structural way,” said Cercone.
Many of the migrants travel thousands of miles overland from countries like Afghanistan, Iran and even Myanmar to seek asylum in the European Union. Others come from countries in north Africa and south Asia hoping to find work.
Continue Reading at VOA.
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