People processed under this program outnumbered illegal emigrants in 1985, but Hanoi halted interviews for the program at the end of that year.

Vietnamese previously approved for emigration continued to trickle out of the country legally through 1986, but the tide of illegal emigrants rose again.

From 1985 to 1994 the number of illegal emigrants is estimated to 82,500, with an additional 7,500 up to the mid-2000.

Furthermore, the Turkish population would be greater if naturalised citizens and illegal emigrants were also taken into account.

This year 13,000 illegal Chinese emigrants have been repatriated from Hong Kong.

In 2005 the Mexican government was criticized for distributing a comic book which offers tips to illegal emigrants to the United States.

Italy has an agreement with Albania that allows it to reject and repatriate Albanian illegal emigrants.

Mr. Clinton told a skeptical Congress that by creating jobs, Nafta could reduce the number of illegal emigrants who cross the border.

The instruments recently proposed by the Commission for the control of illegal immigration cannot generate a positive effect unless the problem of illegal emigrants is also solved.

But more than 400,000 illegal emigrants cross the border every year.