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Germany
is because of its geographic position in Central Europe, its
economic stability, its social security and its wealth one of the
most attractive countries in the EU for illegal immigrants to come
to.
In
1999 more than 37,000 people were picked up by the BGS trying to
cross the border illegally.
Nearly
30% of these illegal
immigrants came from Yugoslavia, though the number of these
people already decreased since the end of the Kosovo-crisis.
The
numbers of the people coming from other countries of the East are
much smaller:
3,769
people immigrated from Rumania, 3,236 from Afghanistan, 2,324 from
Iraq, 1,516 from Turkey and 1,442 from Srilanka.
The
border-guards still focus on the German border-line to the Czech
Republic where they capture about 13,000 people per year. While the
number of illegal immigrants from the EU countries increased since
1997. The border section of Germany and Austria became another
centre of attention during the last years.
10,930
illegal immigrants who often use this way of getting into the EU
have been picked up there in 1999.
This
year about 15,000 people used the other ways through the borders of
the EU coming from the west.
For
more information visit: http://www.bundesgrenzschutz.de/allgem/oep_arbeit/jahresberichte/jbericht00/t21.htm
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