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Thursday, January 22, 2015
STATISTICS ON ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
European Commission
Eurostat
STATISTICS ON ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION [16 December 2014]
This article presents the European Union (EU) indicators on the enforcement of immigration legislation (EIL). It provides statistics on non-EU citizens refused entry at external borders,[1] apprehended
as being illegally present or subject to an obligation to leave the
territory of an EU Member State. The indicators in this article can be
regarded as an official record of persons subject to enforcement of
immigration legislation, providing a general overview of the outcomes of
territorial surveillance and control procedures.
According
to the available data, irregular migration to the EU decreased
significantly between 2008 and 2011, then stabilised over the last three
years. The situation for individual EU Member States however varies in
trend and level due to specific national factors such as national
wealth, history and culture, geographical position, type and length of
borders, border infrastructure, border control, judicial procedures,
national policy and the legal framework related to irregular migration.
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