In 2025, there were over 177,000 illegal border crossing detecting on the borders of the European Union, a substantial decline compared to 2023, when there were over 380,230. Illegal border crossings peaked in 2015 at the height of the European migrant crisis, when over 1.8 million illegal border crossings were detected.
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