MIGRASYL

News on migration and asylum from around the region - Nouvelles de la région sur les questions de migration et d'asile

Monday, August 13, 2012

[Greece]: EU Observer - Greece to deport undocumented migrants

07.08.2012. Authorities in Greece rounded up 6,030 undocumented migrants in Athens over the weekend and arrested 1,525 of them for not meeting the legal conditions for residency in Greece. "Those arrested will be deported to their home countries," Greece's ministry of public order and citizen protection told EUobserver in an email. None among those arrested are minors, authorities claim.