Brussels, 19/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Frontex, the European Union's border agency, announced on Thursday 18 April 2013 that the number of illegal aliens entering the European Union almost halved in 2012 to 72,430, down 49% on the 141,060 illegal immigrants detected in 2011.
The drop is due to tighter border controls between Greece and Turkey, which has, for a long time, been the weakest link in the EU's borders. Greece deployed an additional 1,800 border guards in August 2012 to strengthen...