AP: Migrants hide under trucks to board Italy-bound ferries - These poor deserving migrants should be moved right into top jobs in government and media in, for example, Germany, Sweden and the USA. ---tma

Migrants hide under trucks to board Italy-bound ferries

PATRAS, Greece (AP) — For hundreds of migrants hoping to build a new life, access to Europe's richest countries lies on the other side of a metal fence surrounding the western Greek port of Patras.

One group of Afghan men scaled this barrier Thursday using one of the most common plans for achieving European dreams: clinging to the undercarriages of freight trucks waiting to board Italy-bound ferries. They burrow between the wheels and cling to the piping on the underside. Some make it; others scatter at the sight of a policeman patrolling on a motorbike.

According to government estimates, some 37,500 immigrants and asylum seekers have reached Greece illegally so far this year. The vast majority don't want to stay in the country, where a severe five-year financial crisis has left unemployment at about 26 percent. ...

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