Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Why is the E.U. Sending Armed Guards to Greece? - TIME

"Why is the E.U. Sending Armed Guards to Greece?
By Joanna Kakissis / Athens Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010

As the world watches Greece wrestle with its crushing debt and crippled economy, the country is quietly struggling to manage another burgeoning crisis: the dramatic influx of illegal immigrants crossing from Greece into the European Union. Officials say Greece receives about 85% of Europe's total illegal immigrants, many of them coming through Turkey. Now it doesn't know what to do with them — or how to stem the flow."

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