Total of 110 illegal immigrants were intercepted and arrested throughout the weekend in nearly a half dozen instances in eastern Aegean waters and on islands in the region, including 21 would-be migrants attempting to approach the island of Samos on Sunday, one of the favorite "targets" of foreign nationals attempting to illegally land on Greek islands via Turkey. Two alleged migrant smugglers were also arrested. All of the detained individuals were identified as Third World nationals, while authorities said the groups of would-be migrants had disembarked from the opposite Turkish coast by paying migrant smugglers a fee.Finally, port authorities in the city of Patras, western Greece, arrested a 24-year-old foreign driver on Saturday afternoon, as well as four other foreign nationals riding with him on charges of possessing forged travel documents with the intent of leaving the country illegally.
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