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The illegal immigrant crisis was discussed on Monday on the radio news program “Question of the Day.”
“Unfortunately some of them can’t write, we dealt with it. Even in their mother tongue,” A. Kislovas said on the show.
The director of the Alien Registration Center in Pabradė said that most of the foreigners housed are single men, but there are pregnant women and vulnerable people in their ranks.
“There is a tendency for everyone in the group to have documents, passports or no one. The reasons for the documents are very different: some say they were sent to Germany, some forgot and left them in the car that was transporting them to the border, some allegedly drowned the documents of the entire group while walking through the swamp, “said A.Kislovas.
However, he noted that these people deliberately choose to travel without documents: when they apply for asylum, each application is made on an individual basis.
“This is the work bar of the Department of Migration, its competence. It is being evaluated, information is being collected and there are relevant certificates on the situation in a particular country, ”said the official.
Mr. Kislov also said that some illegal immigrants indicated that they were being persecuted in their country by political structures or force, that there were many family conflicts or that their sexual orientation was not in accordance with general state regulations.
“In terms of statistics, (…) on average, an asylum seeker stayed in the center for 90 days last year, which is approximately the average procedural time during which an asylum application is processed according to the general procedure. An illegal or illegal migrant stayed between 40 and 45 days, “said the director of the Foreigners Registration Center.
If the request is executed urgently, according to A. Kislovas, the decision is made in a short period of time – several weeks.
“For the vast majority of foreigners who travel through Belarus to Europe and have applied for asylum, the procedures are urgent. The difference with the normal procedure is that it is shorter and, together with the decision not to grant the status, the decision is made decision to expel the country of origin. As we live in a state of law, there is the possibility of appealing any decision, (…) it is natural and, of course, they tend to take advantage of that possibility, “the official also said.
Cross-cultural differences become evident
According to A. Kislovas, the center takes into account several aspects when welcoming illegal immigrants.
“There are certain people who really cannot live together due to certain intercultural differences; if we settle in one place, there will be a lot of friction, conflict and this will really be reflected in the general emotional background, not only of the people who live in the center, but also from the employees themselves. ” He pointed”.
Families, women and men and vulnerable people are housed separately. However, according to A. Kislov, the emotional background in the center is not very good.
“It is satisfactory, there are some nuances – after the heat came the rain, the weather cools down a bit, the nights are already cold for them, when 16-17 degrees. It’s kind of a test: if 25 and 22 degrees at night is a tropical night for us, it is a normal night for them. Right now, it has gotten colder for them and there is some dissatisfaction with the climate change, ”the official said.
Illegal migrants are also unhappy with the fact that a large proportion of them are detained and then travel to the corresponding building, where they cannot move freely around the center.
“It provokes natural emotions and dissatisfaction for everyone. We are monitoring that situation, to this day there is an additional reinforced security: seven more people work in the security center. We are ready for any event and how it could unfold. It can take various forms of protest, not necessarily destruction of property or an attempt to pressure the administration; it can be a mass hunger campaign or an imitation of mass suicide. These situations are known to other colleagues, “noted A. Kislovas.
A spokeswoman for the Migration Department explained the procedures.
For her part, Liucija Voišnis, deputy director of the Migration Department, explained that when a person requests asylum, the Department conducts interviews with those people and collects information.
“There are forms of asylum on the road, one is refugee status. It is granted if the asylum seeker has a well-founded fear of being persecuted in his country of origin and a second subsidiary form of protection: for example, human rights violations may result in such asylum or military action in the country of origin.
When refugee status is granted, that person is granted a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, and if additional protection is granted, they are granted a temporary residence permit, usually for two years, ”explained L. Voišnis.
According to her, in the first quarter of this year, of the 116 asylum applications granted to 24 people, the negative decisions reached 39 illegal immigrants. For others, the procedures continue or leave the country.
Following the decision to return a person to the country of origin, deportation can be voluntary or mandatory.
“We do not monitor voluntary return, we only know on what day and when they cross the border and leave, and the forced return is usually accompanied; that person is accompanied by their state,” added L. Voišnis.
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