Hundreds of
migrants from the Caribbean are travelling more than 6,000 miles to
enter the European Union through Greece, the Mail can reveal.
Instead
of trying to get into the United States a few hundred miles to the
north, many are making the journey across the Atlantic to Istanbul in
Turkey.
From
there, they travel along the coast to join thousands of refugees on the
perilous crossing of the Aegean to the Greek islands.
On arrival
some claim to be from Somalia or even from Syria or Afghanistan in an
attempt to gain asylum and get free travel across most of the EU.
In 2015 almost 400 migrants came to Greece from the Caribbean, the vast majority from the Dominican Republic.
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