As someone posted up thread, it's pretty easy to distinguish between those who are coming from Afghanistan for example, in need of a safe haven, as opposed to young Albanian men who do not.
When Albania opened up its borders many left the country, which was understandable when the population had suffered a hard life under a despot. Its proximity to Corfu in particular, a mere couple of miles away I believe and further afield parts of Southern Italy make those a gateway to access the rest of Europe easily. Albania is a relatively small country with an ever diminishing population, less than 3 million, they need their young back to help it flourish. I mentioned up thread, it is tipped to become the next hot spot in the Mediterranean, its coastlines are, lovely, like adjacent countries that border it. It's very unfortunate that Albania has become synonymous with drugs, allegedly they pretty much have the monopoly on the illegal cocaine trade in London so it's easy to imagine just where those new arrivals will end up along with terrorised youngsters who get sucked into county lines. There's an irony that young Afghan men are fleeing their country because they are at risk being drafted into The Taliban, Albanian young men don't have that duress until they reach these shores when they may find themselves forced to join a criminal underworld with all the dangers that go with that. With that in mind, how much better it would be for them to return home to be part of something legitimate rather than endanger not only their lives but the lives of young kids here. For established law abiding settled Albanians, I imagine like Mexicans in the US, they must be sick of having their identities tarnished by the one dimensional view of their countries' associations of gangs or cartels.
