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Migrants rest in a logistics center at the checkpoint "Kuznitsa" at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, Friday, November 19, 2021 | Photo: Maxim Guchek/dpa/picture-alliance
COVID-19 shutdowns worldwide resulted in a temporary fall in arrival numbers, but it did not put a stop to migration and refugee movements. In the picture, a group of sub-Saharan migrants wearing face masks as a precaution, seen in Malaga, Spain, after being rescued by the Spanish coast guard, September 11, 2020 | Photo: Jesus Merida/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire
File photo used for illustration: Migrants in detention centers in Libya have been exposed to some unthinkable atrocities, say human rights groups | Photo: picture-alliance
File photo: Many refugees from Syria and Afghanistan arrive from Turkey on boat near Molyvos, Lesbos, on overloaded dinghies, October 29, 2015 | Photo: Picture-alliance/ Nicolas Economou
Germany promised that particularly vulnerable Afghans would be granted entry | Photo: Patrick Pleul / dpa-Zentralbild / picture-alliance