{"id":342881,"date":"2025-08-14T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342881\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:54:16","slug":"illegal-migrants-take-more-risks-to-reach-europe-as-security-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342881\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal migrants take more risks to reach Europe as security tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, experts say illegal migrants are adapting to stricter EU measures at borders and becoming more reliant on smugglers and newer, often more dangerous routes.<\/p>\n<p>While overall numbers are down, arrivals have not decreased across every route to Europe, and new corridors have emerged as illegal migrants and smugglers adapt. &#8220;As one route declines, others usually surge or re-emerge,&#8221; said Jennifer Vallentine, an expert at the Mixed Migration Centre, a research organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal crossings dropped to 240,000 in 2024 after surpassing 300,000 in 2022 and 2023 for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the downward trend, a new Mediterranean Sea corridor between Libya and Greece has emerged, with more than 7,000 people arriving in Crete this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek Government has proposed a new law to criminalise illegal entry and <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/piracy\/greece-approves-north-africa-asylum-ban-despite-activist-group-backlash\" rel=\"noopener\">impose a temporary ban on asylum applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, experts say illegal migrants are adapting to stricter EU measures at borders and becoming more reliant on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2740,3045,321,2000,299,5187,1699,27750,1450,6325,6656,9894,20277,6500,5806,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-342881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-canary-islands","10":"tag-egypt","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-frontex","16":"tag-greece","17":"tag-illegal-migration","18":"tag-libya","19":"tag-mediterranean-sea","20":"tag-mena","21":"tag-syria","22":"tag-tunisia","23":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115025101651057076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}