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Yes, it is possible -- despite some of the rhetoric, I am pretty sure that males are more likely to be the victims of the sort of violence, etc, which tends to engender flight, and re those who exit looking for work, it is often young men who go out to earn money to send back -- but Pew found in 2015 that 29% of asylum seekers in Europe were under 18. Forty-two percent were males 18-34. So, overrepresented, yes, but not the majority, let alone the vast majority. And this estimates that 46% of illegal immigrants in the US are female. The DHS estimate for 2015-2018 is similar: 5.54 million female out of 11.39 million.
27 percent women so definitely overwhelmingly male. I don't trust the self reported ages of the migrants but even if true 17 year olds are military age in the US.
The claim was overwhelmingly military age male, not overwhelmingly male. And, this indicates that most of those under 18 are under 13. Twenty-five percent of the total for the EU as a whole.
As an aside, note also that it indicates that most applications are rejected.
I think a lot of the perception comes from 2015-2016 when much larger numbers were arriving. I couldn't find statistics with a quick search but looking through the images on the wikipedia, the wide shots show a pretty large majority being young men (at least in the wide shots, the close ups are usually women and children).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis
Maybe this type of migrant is getting stopped more effectively now by deals with Turkey and better border security, or maybe more of them have caught on that you need to lie about your age, or maybe more young men are just sneaking in instead of trying to claim asylum.
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