It does not reflect untold numbers of clandestine immigrants, largely from Africa and Eastern Europe.

He added the frontier could "not remain open to the flux of thousands of clandestine immigrants."

This West African nation emerged in the 1980's as an unexpected source of clandestine third-world immigrants to the United States.

But in recent years, there has been a huge influx of Balkan war refugees and asylum-seekers and clandestine immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa.

Albanian clandestine immigrants started arriving at Italian ports in 1991.

Last year, the police said they intercepted close to 14,000 clandestine immigrants along the Spanish shores, and 663 illegal vessels.

A4 Immigrant Boat Sinks A boat carrying about 60 Jordanian, Iraqi and Afghan clandestine immigrants sank off the southwestern coast of Turkey.

During yesterday's sitting I mentioned to the Commissioner that even a 14-year-old illegal transporter of clandestine immigrants had been arrested.

Over the past two years, Michel Debre, the Interior Minister, has had 40 plane loads of clandestine immigrants flown back where they came from.

Harragas are clandestine immigrants that flee their country to escape from poverty.