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16,700 immigrants arrived by boat in Lampedusa and the coast of Sicily in 2007

Many of them came from Nigeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ghana, and other African countries, and usually take a boat to Lampedusa from Libya.

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9-May-08 | 11:04 PM
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An estimated 8 million illegal immigrants reside in the EU, half of whom entered in legally but overstayed.
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8-May-08 | 3:01 PM
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In 2007, roughly 31,000 Africans tried to reach the Canary Islands, a prime transit point to Europe, in more than 900 boats.

About 6,000 died or disappeared, according to one estimate cited by the United Nations.

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8-May-08 | 2:55 PM
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In the course of 2007, some 1,861 migrants died trying to cross into Europe by sea, according to the Italian monitoring organization Fortress Europe. This is only a slight improvement upon 2006, when the number of known deaths was 2,088.
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29-Feb-08 | 1:10 PM
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Nearly 800,000 Eastern European immigrants have applied to work in Britain since Poland and seven other ex-Soviet countries joined the European Union in 2004.
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26-Feb-08 | 8:58 PM
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There are 176 holding centres in Europe for illegal immigrants: 16 are in Italy, 19 in Greece and four in Malta where most immigrants head.
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25-Feb-08 | 7:22 PM
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About 8,800 Egyptian illegal emigrants died in European holding camps from 1993 to 2006.
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25-Feb-08 | 7:12 PM
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