With the easy way closed, the refugees and immigrants are turning to human traffickers. -Vasilis Chronopoulos
Smugglers are currently offering to take people a short distance to the Hungarian or Croatian border, a service that costs between 200 and 300 euros ($214-321). They’ve also got wire cutters for the Hungarian border fence. Hundreds of people a day try to leave Serbia in this way, desperate to make it onto EU soil. Most of them are immediately picked up by police. Many are robbed, humiliated or beaten before being sent back to Serbia, according to the dozens of refugees DW reporters have spoken with in recent days.
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That may very well be true....I actually don't know.
What I quoted was the last line in the DW article, so I don't know if that statement was specific to Serbia or the Balkans, or was intended to apply worldwide....and they didn't provide a citation, so I have no way of checking who is verifying these kind of statistics (especially since I'm pretty sure they don't pop up in official tax records of any of these counties...so who even keeps track of all of this under-the-table, shady-back-alley, underground economic activity? What's the sample size and how far beyond the data is it extrapolated?) I don't know where your data comes from either, but you could very well be correct.
Wherever those three items fall in the rankings, officially or in made-up statistics based on limited data (not always mutually exclusive), I'm probably still going to be a little bit sad every now and then that it's never going to go away, and lives of real people will be damaged year after year, and we still have to deal with the fallout in our families and neighborhoods and in international relations.