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Children of Greece Migrants

Sat, April 2, 2016   /   11:52 am
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    A Migrant woman holds a baby, in Athens, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at the Victoria Square, where most newly-landed migrants head after reaching the greek capital from the Aegean Sea islands. Border restrictions further north in the Balkans have left thousands of refugees and other migrants stranded in a country that is still wracked by its own financial crisis and unable to seal its lengthy sea border with Turkey.

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    A girl wearing a plastic rain poncho walks as refugees and migrants wait to receive food distributed by non-governmental organization at the Greek-Macedonian border, in the northern Greek village of Idomeni, on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily.

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    A migrant woman cries while holding a baby, in Athens, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at the Victoria Square, where most newly-landed migrants head after reaching the Greek capital from the Aegean Sea islands. Border restrictions further north in the Balkans have left thousands of refugees and other migrants stranded in a country that is still wracked by its own financial crisis and unable to seal its lengthy sea border with Turkey.

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    A girl of a migrant family holds her face in her palms in Athens, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at the Victoria Square, where most newly-landed migrants head after reaching the Greek capital from the Aegean Sea islands. Border restrictions further north in the Balkans have left thousands of refugees and other migrants stranded in a country that is still wracked by its own financial crisis and unable to seal its lengthy sea border with Turkey.

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    Stranded Refugees from Syria are covered with blankets while waiting to be allowed to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016. About 5,500 migrants are braving rainy weather at a tent camp close to the border and another 500 are camped at a gas station 17 kilometers away.

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    A boy of a migrant family sleeps on the pavement, in Athens, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at the Victoria Square, where most newly-landed migrants head after reaching the Greek capital from the Aegean Sea islands. Border restrictions further north in the Balkans have left thousands of refugees and other migrants stranded in a country that is still wracked by its own financial crisis and unable to seal its lengthy sea border with Turkey.

At flashpoints near borders on either side of Europe, authorities tried Tuesday to force back migrants desperate to begin new lives in more prosperous nations.
In Greece, police bused about 1,250 Afghans stuck at the Macedonian border back to Athens after countries further up the migrant trail wouldn't let them through. In France, authorities prepared to evict people from a shantytown known as the "jungle" in the port of Calais, where migrants wait for a chance to try to cross into Britain.
The seemingly arbitrary decision by some Balkan countries to close their borders to Afghans attempting to make their way across Europe to seek asylum has left thousands stranded in Greece, even as more continue to arrive on Greek islands from the nearby Turkish shore.
By nightfall, more than 4,000 people, mostly from Syria and Iraq, were camped out just yards from the border fence waiting to cross into Macedonia. 

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