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According to SBGS officials, most of them were trapped in the Varėna district last day. Statistics due to the changing situation are paramount and can change at any time.
This year, a total of 1,363 illegal immigrants were detained on the border with Belarus. In addition to Iraqi citizens, many immigrants from Congo, Cameroon and Guinea are among those detained.
Of the 131 migrants, 68 were detained by Aleksandras Barauskas border guards who were guarding the border with Belarus in the Varėna district.
22 foreigners were detained in Druskininkai Municipality and Ignalina District by border guards from the Druskininkai and Puškai firebreaks. Migrants were also detained in Švenčionys and Šalčininkai districts.
Druskininkai border guards had a chance to take a break on Monday, although according to preliminary data, the number of illegal immigrants detained by them in the past five days (438) is the highest among all SBGS firewalls.
On Monday, the foreigners detained until then were transferred from Druskininkai to the facilities provided by the Alytus district municipality.
In addition, the illegal migrants have already been accommodated in the premises provided by the municipalities of the city of Alytus, Ignalina, Varėna and Lazdijai. The accommodation of detainees is also carried out at the SBGS Alien Registration Center in Pabradė and the Border Guard School in Medininkai, and unaccompanied minors are transferred to the Refugee Reception Center in Rukla.
On Tuesday, a greater coordination of actions will take place, where foreigners will stay in the SBGS firewalls.
They will be tested for COVID-19 and isolated until the results are available. The circumstances of the events are clarified, investigations are carried out. Asylum seekers have been notified by the Department of Migration, which processes such applications.
At a meeting on Friday, the government declared a state-of-the-art emergency situation due to the sharp increase in illegal migration to Lithuania.
This year, 1,363 illegal immigrants from Belarus tried to enter Lithuania. That number is seventeen times higher than it was in 2020. Last year, 81 of those foreigners were detained at the border with Lithuania. 2019 46 illegal immigrants were caught by border guards in 2018; – 104, 2017 – 72.
Among those detained on the border with Belarus this year there are mostly Iraqi citizens or foreigners who came to them: 599. There were also 192 citizens of the Congo, 109 of Cameroon, 78 of Guinea, 57 citizens of Iraq and other countries.
Border guards are still clarifying the citizenship of some migrants, as many of them do not have documents.
A large part of the detainees seek to enter Western European countries through Lithuania.
With the recent sharp increase in the number of such cases, SBGS has strengthened border security with Belarus. In addition to various organizational measures, officials from other SBGS units were assigned to this section and additional technical resources were assigned.
In addition, forces from the Public Security Service, the Rifle Union and other institutions came to the aid of border guards, as well as officials from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency FRONTEX began work on the border with Belarus.
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