Thread: Chaos! Migrants flood into Greece - then try to sneak out

Don't know why they call them "migrants" because they seem to be illegal unless its a European Union term. This is really a terrible problem over there. Total Chaos. See what we have to look forward to.

Migrants flood into Greece - then try to sneak out

SUSAN SACHS
May 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM EDT

PATRAS, GREECE — The migrants who flock to this busy port city try just about anything to get out. They cling to the undersides of tractor-trailers being loaded onto ships and ferries. They sneak into refrigerated trucks, shivering among crates of vegetables. They seal themselves like amateur Houdinis into false-bottom cubbyholes in the backs of vans.

Their destination is Italy, the next stop after Greece on the people-trafficking routes into Europe. Some are caught before they make the crossing. Some die of suffocation in their airless hiding places.

But hope and desperation keep them coming, making Patras a magnet for thousands of illegal migrants that Greek officials say they can no longer manage or absorb.

“We're trying to contain the problem,â€

Greece used to be a sending country for immigrants coming into the United States. The Greeks still only make about a third what they would here. The country has however wound up retaining more of it's population and is now beset by this influx of illegal aliens.