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A truck passes border plaques at the Czech-Slovak border in Stary Hrozenkov, where illegal migrant detection measures will be introduced from midnight, as part of security measures put in place after Poland introduced similar ones, in the Czech Republic, October 3, 2023. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

WARSAW, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Poland will extend temporary controls on its borders with Slovakia until Jan. 2, 2024, in response to continuing efforts by migrants to enter from Slovak territory.

Slovakia is a transit country for migrants mostly from the Middle East and Afghanistan who are seeking to reach western Europe, especially Germany, after crossing into the European Union via Hungary from Serbia, which is not in the EU.

"Temporary border controls on the Polish-Slovak border are extended until January 2, 2024. Inspections will continue to be carried out only in the direction entering Poland," the Polish Border Guard said on social media platform X.

Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria all tightened their borders with Slovakia on Oct. 4. Warsaw cited "a serious threat of illegal immigration on the Polish-Slovak section of the state border". The measure was later extended several times.

Similarly, Slovakia approved last month an extension of its own temporary border controls with Hungary till Dec. 23.

Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria are all part of Europe's open-border Schengen zone.

Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by Toby Chopra

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A common argument by the open-borders lobby is that there is no connection between illegal immigrants and crime. Those people first miss the fundamental fact that illegal immigrants broke American immigration law when they came into the country illegally.It also ignores the fact that any crime committed by an illegal alien is one that could have been avoided if our immigration laws were beingenforced.

In the sanctuary city of Chicago, more than 21,000 primarily Venezuelan migrants have arrived since the summer of 2022. The 21,000 consists of those who have crossed the border illegally and those whom the Biden administration has let into the interior of the United States, largely through their rampant and illegal abuse of paroleauthority.

The Venezuelan migrants in Chicago have shattered the narrative pushed by the open-borders lobby that there is no connection between the border crisis and crime. According to police data obtained by CWBChicago, there were just six arrests of Venezuelan-born people in 2021 and 26 in 2022. Now, as of November 12 this year, Chicago PD has arrested 686 Venezuelans, representing an 11,333% increase over2021.

2023s numbers are only through November 12, leaving the second half of November and the entire month of December to add to the 686arrests.

Here is a sampling of just some of the crimes the Venezuelan migrants are accused ofcommitting:

These crimes would not have happened if these people had not entered the United States. These crimes burden the citizens of Chicago, the police department and the businesses that lose money from shoplifting. And these are only Venezuelan-born migrants, not the countless other countries migrants arefrom.

FAIRs cost study found illegal immigrants force taxpayers to shell out $601.4 million in police, legal and correction costs, and, overall, illegal immigration costs Illinois taxpayers $3.9 billionannually.

Dont buy the open-borders fallacy. Illegal immigration, by its very nature is a crime, and that disrespect for laws is often responsible for more crime. It is also a burden American citizens should not have tocarry.

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA JOSE SANCHEZ-MORADEL, age 35, a native of Honduras, plead guilty on November 28, 2023 to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(5)(A), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.

According to court documents, on April 26, 2023, the Mandeville Police Department responded to a call by an individual who said that her ex-boyfriend, SANCHEZ-MORADEL, was trying to enter her residence in Mandeville, Louisiana. The Mandeville Police Department also learned that SANCHEZ-MORADEL drove a white truck. Police then saw a white 2016 Chevrolet Silverado leaving the area near the ex-girlfriends apartment complex. Mandeville Police then stopped the truck and detained the driver who was later confirmed to be SANCHEZ-MORADEL.

The visibly distressed ex-girlfriend told police that SANCHEZ-MORADEL forcibly entered her residence and subsequently fled in the white truck. After officers conducted a search of SANCHEZ-MORADEL incident to his arrest, they discovered a handgun magazine containing ten (10) .22 LR calliber rounds in his shorts pocket. Officers also found a Husky multi tool knife with a damaged blade tip. Officers then searched his vehicle and locateda Glock Model G44, .22 LR caliber handgun inside the center console.This firearm was manufactured in another state and shipped in interstate commerce to Louisiana.

SANCHEZ-MORADEL faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 15 years, a fine of up to $250,000, up to three (3) years of supervised release, and a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.

U.S. Attorney Evans praised the work of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and the Mandeville Police Department in investigating this matter. Assistant United States Attorney Carter K.D. Guice, Jr. of the General Crimes Unit is in charge of the prosecution.

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Frances immigration reform legislation, which was approved by the French senate earlier this month with added amendments even tougher on immigration than the original bill, faces at least three major challenges as French President Emmanuel Macron seeks to pass it through the Chamber of Deputies.

Discussions on the bill began this week on Monday, November 27th.

MP Ccile Rilhac, a member of En Commun and an ally of President Macron, told broadcaster Franceinfo, that there were two red lines, which, if crossed, would mean she and her allies would not be able to vote for the bill.

The first red line related to the regularisation of illegal undocumented workers, with Rilhac stating,

There must be the possibility of regularisation of foreign workers. Thats for sure. The fact that it is related to jobs in short supply always raises the question, in this case, of the regular rewriting of this list of jobs in short supply.

We want there to be a basic right, that is, undocumented workers can, at their request, be regularised.

The second red line involves a proposal to take away state medical aid (AME) from illegal immigrants. The AME currently covers all of their medical costs, rather than just emergency care.

According to a 2021 report, the French taxpayer was paying around a billion euros per year to cover the healthcare of illegal immigrants due to the fact that hundreds of thousands were benefitting from the scheme.

Rilhac added that she and her allies would not vote for any bill that scrapped the AME for illegal immigrants and that some of her allies would go further and vote against the bill. The French Senate already voted to scrap AME for illegal migrants entirely and only cover emergency care.

A third red line involves labour market access to asylum seekers from countries likely to receive refugee status. This was rejected by the French senate, which is largely controlled by right-wing parties such as the centre-right Les Republicains.

Sacha Houli, a member of President Macrons party Renaissance, stated that the Macron-allied parties and the Left would seek to restore the proposal to allow asylum seekers immediate access to the French labour market if it was likely they would receive asylum.

A group of 17 Les Republicains MPs, meanwhile, stated they would vote for the bill if the spirit of the Senates project prevails. This could open the door for some changes to the bill supported by the Macron faction and the Left, as the rest of the right-wing parties have stood firm on their support for the Senate version.

The openness of Les Republicains MPs could also allow the Macron government to avoid having to enact Article 49.3, which grants the French executive power to force bills into law even if they do not have a majority of votes in the French parliament.

The article was used earlier this year in March to force through a controversial retirement reform which raised the age of retirement from 62 to 64 and led to widespread protests and strikes.

In a 2021 survey, 71% of French said that there has been enough immigration to France and that they had little desire for more, while 64% said they did not wish France to take in any more refugees due to concerns regarding terrorism. A survey from April 2023 showed that 82% of French citizens favoured an immigration law that would facilitate easier deportations of illegal immigrants.

Another poll from 2021 found nearly 7 in 10 French people believed in the theory of the Great Replacement coined by writer Renaud Camus, which asserts that elites in government and business are driving the demographic replacement of native peoples in Europe and elsewhere through mass immigration policies.

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The Balkan nation has recorded the jump nine months after it joined the Schengen area, the world's largest visa-free zone.

Croatia has recorded a 140% year-on-year increase in illegal immigration, according to new figures released by authorities.

On Thursday, Border Police Chief Zoran Niceno announced that the sharp rise has seen more than 54,500 people crossing the Croatian border illegally this year so far.

Croatia, which is home to nearly 3.9 million inhabitants, joined the Schengen area in 2023.It also has the European Union's longest external land border some 1,350 kilometres in total.

It applies strict checks on arrivals crossing from its non-EU neighbours in the Balkans, but is nonethelesswell known as one of the preferred passages on the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of men, women and children fleeing conflict in 2015 and 2016.

Several associations across Europe have warned Croatia against illegal expulsions of migrants especially children and have raised concerns at the country's stark lack of reception facilities for asylum seekers.

Among the 1,700 cases of illegal expulsions documented this year, more than half of the migrants surveyed say they have suffered "physical violence, humiliation or theft", according to the Centre for Peace Studies, a local organisation.

NGOs and some media outlets frequently accuse Croatia of forcibly pushing back migrants at the border, often using force.The government in Zagreb has always denied such behaviour.

Across the border in Slovenia - also an EU member - the number of migrants has increased too, almost tripling in the first 8 months of 2023, compared to the same period in 2022.

While the Slovenian Minister of the Interior, Bostjan Poklukar, says there are no immediate plans to toughen up border controls in many areas, he has indicated that they have been strengthened in the most critical places.

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Croatia: Sharp rise in illegal immigration since Schengen entry last year - Euronews