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FILE - Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of Frontex, attends a meeting of EU Interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Dec. 2, 2019. The head of the European Union's border agency has offered to resign after allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants, according to the European Commission and a German Interior Ministry spokesperson. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2018 file photo, migrants disembark at the port of Crinavis in Algeciras, Spain, after being rescued in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 that there is &quot;no burning crisis&quot; right now in Europe due to migrant arrivals, but that more and more African people are trying to enter Spain from Morocco. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo, File)

EU border guard chief says ‘no burning crisis’ over migrants

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