A Ukrainian border guard stands guard as would-be immigrants play soccer in a detention camp for illegal migrants in Chop, a small town in western Ukraine, just a few dozen miles from the border with Slovakia, Hungary and Poland February 6, 2009. Thousands of would-be immigrants from India, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Somalia, Chechnya and Georgia have begun to choose the “easy” route to Europe – through Ukraine’s Carpathian mountains. Either duped by their smugglers into thinking Ukraine is Poland, Slovakia, Romania or Hungary or dumped in a Ukrainian forest, many migrants end their thousands of dollars-worth trips to Europe in Ukraine.

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