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Immigrants wait to be released from a detention center after being processed in Filakio, Greece on Nov. 12, 2010.JODI HILTON

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Many migrants find their way into Greece by crossing the Evros River. Frontex is launching operation rapid border intervention teams from EU countries to help control the Greek border, where 90% of irregular detections into the EU have occurred in 2010. Greece reports 45,000 irregular border crossings this year.JODI HILTON

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Migrants often cross through a military-controlled area where they are endangered by mines, a legacy of conflicts between Greece and Turkey.JODI HILTON

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Afghan migrants walking south along the highway towards Alexandroupolis after crossing into Greece. As the migrants head into Greece on foot, some are targeted by bandits.JODI HILTON

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Dozens have died making the crossing and a local mufti has buried them in a makeshift cemetery containing more than 140 bodies of immigrants.JODI HILTON

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Frontex officers assist Greek police in rounding up and detaining migrants who are transferred and processed in a nearby detention center.JODI HILTON

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Migrants are given temporary documents when they leave the Filakio detention center which gives them 30 days to leave Greece. But few stick to the timetable.JODI HILTON

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An Afghan family is released from a detention center after being processed and buying a ticket to Athens.JODI HILTON

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Afghan migrants try to figure out if they have enough money to pay 60 euro bus fare to Athens. Thousands of them remain in limbo in Greece, where they survive hand-to-mouth in the ghettos and parks of Athens.JODI HILTON

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