Sunday, December 27, 2015

EU deports only SEVEN migrants a day, so it would take 143,000 YEARS to send everyone home

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/629068/EU-deports-migrants-143-000-years-to-send-everyone-home-refugee-crisis-Europe

BELEAGUERED European Union bosses are deporting just SEVEN out of the 8,000 migrants who arrive on Europe's shores every single day, it can be revealed.

By Nick Gutteridge

PUBLISHED: 13:00, Sat, Dec 26, 2015 | UPDATED: 16:12, Sat, Dec 26, 2015

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The EU is deporting just seven migrants a day

Fewer than 0.1 per cent of the asylum seekers who have made it to the continent since September have been sent back home, despite Brussels boasting it will get tough on economic migrants.
At this rate, it would take an astonishing 143,000 years to repatriate the 1million refugees believed to have travelled to Europe in 2015 alone, if they all failed their asylum bids.

The revelations came as EU member states continue to effectively retreat on a deal to relocate migrants across the continent by refusing to take in their quota.
Official statistics show just 658 migrants have been put on return flights since European border force Frontex pledged to kick out failed asylum seekers in September.

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More than a million migrants have arrived in Europe this year alone

Migrants crossing the border into Slovenia

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European leaders had pledged to speed up the system for deportations

A paltry 15 services have been put on by border bosses since the scheme began, with just TWO leaving the continent in the last two months.

In October European leaders agreed to speed up the deportation of economic migrants, saying member states "must do more in terms of return" and arguing that "increased return rates should act as a deterrent to irregular migration".

But since then the number of return flights has actually nosedived, and fewer than 100 people were deported in November and December.