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Europe’s unauthorized immigrant population peaks in 2016, then levels off

At least 3.9 million unauthorized immigrants – and possibly as many as 4.8 million – lived in Europe in 2017, according to new estimates. The total is up from 2014, when 3.0 million to 3.7 million unauthorized migrants lived in Europe, but is little changed from a recent peak in 2016.

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East Germany has narrowed economic gap with West Germany since fall of communism, but still lags

The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago this week brought far-reaching social and economic changes to communist East Germany, and people on both sides of the former barrier say the changes that have occurred since 1989 have had a positive influence on living standards in their country, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. But that does not mean the former East and West Germany are on equal economic footing today.

What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 5 charts

Border Patrol agents apprehended more migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2019 than in any year since fiscal 2007, according to new federal data. Here is a closer look the shifting dynamics at the southwestern border, based on the new numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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