As part of an effort to halt the irregular migration, authorities in Slovakia will deploy hundreds of police officers and troops along the common border with Hungary, the newly formed government in Slovakia has confirmed.
Slovakia’s new Prime Minister, Robert Fico, said that the irregular migration must be controlled, warning that people connected to terrorist groups could otherwise enter this country.
According to the government, over 40,000 undocumented migrants have been detected within its borders this year, with the country being considered as a transit point by migrants attempting to reach other European countries.
We want to send a clear signal that with the new government, a new approach to illegal migration has come.
Authorities in Slovakia are dealing with an influx in the number of migrants, thus attempting to find new ways to enhance their management of the migration situation.
The figures from the portal radiozet.pl, revealed that about 2,000 people have been detained there since the beginning of this year. The majority of them are coming from Syria.
In order to better protect the borders, authorities in Slovakia initiated controls at the common border with Hungary; however, after finding no irregular migrants in this area, Slovakia abolished such a decision just a day after announcing it.
This demonstration of strength, which is being shown on the entire green border, is intended to make it clear to everyone, especially smugglers and organisers of illegal migration, that Slovakia is ready and will protect its own territory from illegal migration.
Poland’s Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, Mariusz Kamiński, announced that Poland would extend border controls with Slovakia for another 20 days, until November 2.
Furthermore, he stressed that the number of detected irregular migrants in Slovakia has surged by almost a thousand per cent.
European states are seeing many irregular migrants attempting to reach their countries, thus leading several Schengen States to tighten their border controls.
The figures from the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) previously revealed that a total of 279,350 people attempted to cross the EU’s external borders in an irregular way in the
first nine months of this year, thus accounting for a 17 per cent increase compared to last year’s same period statistics.
Frontex’s statistics revealed that the Central Mediterranean area contributed to half of the detections at the European Union’s external borders this year.
