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The Greek Migration and Asylum Minister, Notis Mitarachi, said that the country is on high alert at the sea and land borders, as a major migration crisis is on its way due to Afghanistan being captured by Taliban forces, which is expected to cause a flux in Afghan refugees.

According to a statement made during an interview with the newspaper Real News, Mitarachi said that the country would not become a portal for illegal migration once again, implying the European migrant crisis in 2010s when 1.3 million refugees entered the European countries, recording the highest number of migrants since World War II.

In addition, thousands of immigrants died almost every year in the last decade while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Seas hundreds of kilometres.

From 2015, the migrants started passing through the Aegean Sea, reaching Turkey and Greece, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

Following this turn of events, Greece has just recently finished building a 40-kilometre wall on its borderline with Turkey in a bid to halt the heavy flow of Afghan asylum seekers.

The only sure thing is that in the face of a possible wave of migration, Greece will not be limited to the role of observer, but will play an active role in the European fora to deal with it effectively, Minister Mitarachi stated.

In another statement made earlier this year, Minister Mitarachi called the secondary movement for migrants and refugees out of date concept, meaning that refugees and migrants who arrive in Greece will be allowed to travel from there to other European countries freely.

Were obliged to provide residence permits and travel documents to recognised refugees, Mitarachi noted, later commenting that migrants are more attracted to the EUs higher salaries and benefits.

Furthermore, FRONTEX, European Border and Coast Guard Agency revealed that 17,300 people illegally entered Europe in July, recording a 33 per cent increase compared to the same time in 2020.

According to FRONTEX, the Western Balkan route experienced 3,600 cases of illegal passing in July, marking a 90 per cent increase for this year. The majority of migrants were Syrians, Afghans and Moroccans.

On the other hand, Europe is being overwhelmed by another migration crisis in the east, with Belarusian attempting to enter the neighbouring countries of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia after a chaotic political situation is occurring in the country. In July alone, over 3,000 Belarusian illegally entered Lithuania, whereas 180 went to Poland and 200 in Latvia.

Moreover, FRONTEX has accused Greece of illegal pushbacks due to the Greek border control that sent back many asylum seekers to the Turkish sea after taking their documents, money and cellphones.

Both countries have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of asylum seekers at borders due to their geographic location, which makes the countries most accessible to asylum seekers.

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Its member states are holding off on announcing how many Afghan asylum seekers they will offer shelter to amid fears of a new migrant crisis. This leaves the bloc flagging behind its international partners, who have already declared they will regime huge numbers of refugees from Afghanistan. The UK has already vowed to take in 20,000 vulnerable Afghans threatened by the Taliban.

In recent days, Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa insisted that the EU should not open its doors to Afghan migrants.

The EU will not open any European migration corridors for Afghanistan, he fumed.

Mr Jansas intervention is crucial because he currently holds the EUs six-month rotating presidency.

It means Slovenian ministers and officials are in charge of the inter-governmental negotiations in Brussels because EU member states.

He said there could not be a repeat of the strategic mistake of the 2015 migrant crisis, when the EU introduced a mandatory migrant resettlement scheme despite huge opposition from Hungary and Poland.

European Parliament President David Sassoli quickly lashed out at the Slovenian leader in what soon became a bitter Twitter clash.

Its not up to the Slovenian Presidency to say what the position of the EU is on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, Mr Sassoli said.

The EU Parliament chief has previously called for refugees to be equally shared out across the bloc.

Mr Jansa fired back: It is up to the EU member states to decide if they want to take another wave of migration or not.

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Meanwhile, EU member states are busy erecting anti-migrant fences and barriers across the blocs borders to stop refugees entering illegally.

Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have all begun construction to bolster defences on the EUs frontiers with Turkey and Belarus.

The building comes despite previous criticism of former US President Donald Trump, who used the pledge of a wall to keep migrants out on American border with Mexico to help propel himself to the White House in 2016.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that the European Union cannot expect Ankara to take on the blocs international responsibilities to resettle asylum seekers. In a phone call, the strongman leader told EU Council President Charles Michel: Turkey cannot handle an additional burden of migration. Third countries cannot expect Turkey to take on their international responsibilities.

Eurocrats had been banking on an agreement with Turkey to prevent a fresh wave of asylum seekers from reaching Europes shores.

Veterans of the 2015 crisis, which saw more than 1.2 million travel to the bloc from war-torn nations in the Middle East and Africa, say simply allowing a repeat is not a solution.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell recently said that Turkey would play a key role in managing the risk of a large wave of Afghan refugees arriving in the bloc after fleeing the Taliban.

The diplomat said: We need to ensure that the political situation created in Afghanistan by the return of the Talibandoes not lead to a large scale migratory movement towards Europe.

He added: "They are and will be coming to Europe via Iran, Iraq or the eastern Mediterranean.

This shows that we need to work hard with transit countries. A humanitarian crisis must be prevented. Here, Turkey will play a very important role."

But Turkey immediately rejected the approach and warned Brussels it is not willing to act as Europes refugee warehouse.

Ankara has also said it will not become the border guard or refugee camp of the EU.

Britain has pledged to take in 20,000 Afghans but the EU has been reluctant to open its borders.

There is a sense of panic amongst EU governments that they will not be able to prevent a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.

The United Nations has said that 400,000 Afghans have been internally displaced within the country this year alone.

And EU leaders believe many of them will head for Europes shores in the coming months.

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EU commissioner Ylva Johansson said: We have learned the lesson from 2015 so that we will not see a new migration crisis in the EU.

We should not wait until we have Afghan refugees at our external borders. We have to intervene much earlier and that also, of course, includes money.

The EU must make sure that we dont end up in a situation where a lot of people embark on dangerous smuggling routes ending up at our external borders.

And this is an important gender issue because we know that those that are going on the irregular routes are mainly men. But we also know that those that are in most danger now in Afghanistan are women and girls. And thats why we need to protect women and girls.

President Erdogan vowed to put a complete stop to migrants entering the country and has ordered the construction of a 150-mile wall on its border with Iran.

Meanwhile EU leaders have refused to make claims about the number of Afghans they may take in.

Mrs Merkel said Germany would fly 10,000 people out of Afghanistan and Spain has offered to become a hub for 400 migrants that worked for EU member states.

But beyond that, most pledges have been left vague or even non-existent.

Armin Laschet, the favourite to replace Mrs Merkel as chancellor after next months elections, said: We should not send the signal that Germany can take everyone in need.

Italian premier Mario Draghi said: We have begun to outline what will be the fundamental lines of co-operation at a European level.

Greece has told its EU colleagues that it does not want to become a gateway to Europe.

Its migration minister Notis Mitarach added: The EU is not ready and does not have the capacity to handle another major migration crisis.

Athens has already started work on an anti-migrant fence on its border with Turkey to keep would-be asylum seekers out.

Austria has refused to take in any Afghan asylum seekers and will instead continue deporting those whose applications fail.

Interior minister Karl Nehammer said: Illegal migration, which runs through a dozen safe countries and where migrants simply choose a destination country, must be stopped.

There is no reason why an Afghan should come to Austria now.

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Haydi Consuelo thought she had arrived in the promised land when she walked across the US-Mexico border into Texas with her two-year-old son and other Central American migrants.

She thought she would be given shelter but instead she was put on an airplane and sent back to Mexico, where she was shepherded onto a bus and driven to Guatemala without ever passing through a migration check point.

It was a trick because we were given the impression we would be able to pass. And, suddenly they put us in airplanes and we were deported, said Consuelo, 23, from the Migrant House in El Ceibo near the Mexican border, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) from Guatemala City.

Mexico is using this deserted border area to return migrants who have been deported to its territory from the United States.

Humanitarian organizations helping these migrants say that up to 600 a day are brought in from Mexico over the unguarded crossing.

Missionaries who run the Migrant House in El Ceibo are struggling to cope with the sudden influx.

In order to make space for new arrivals, migrants are allowed to spend just one night in the courtyard, surrounded by their suitcases, rucksacks and shoes.

Hondurans, Nicaraguans, El Salvadorans are returning. There is a perverse strategy of hiding population groups, because we noticed that firstly the Guatemalans were brought and then in the last buses came Hondurans and Nicaraguans, Leonel Dubon, executive director of the Refugio NGO, told AFP.

It seems to be bad faith on the part of the Mexican government.

In El Ceibo, there is no migration infrastructure or health measures to test new arrivals for Covid-19.

The Guatemalan foreign affairs ministry has requested official information from Mexico and the United States about these migratory movements, said the government of Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, which was taken by surprise.

The government said it has two authorized deportation centers: one at the international airport in the capital, and another at a land border in Tecun Uman, some 300 kilometers southwest of Guatemala City.

The migrant crisis in Central America has worsened due to increased unemployment triggered by the pandemic.

After the hardline immigration policies of former president Donald Trump, Central Americans had hoped for a softening stance under the Joe Biden administration, but it has sent out a clear stay away message.

Honduran teacher Gloria Amador Gutierrez, 32, left on July 30 with a group of around 20 migrants by land heading for the United States. On August 19 she was deported to Guatemala.

Amongst those being deported there are also lawyers, graduates. Theres no work and we decided to fight for our children and to give them a better education by going abroad, said Gutierrez, who vowed to regroup in Honduras before trying again.

We have family members in the US that are still waiting for us.

Everything was going well when we arrived in Guatemala, but it was a different story when we reached Mexico, said Onan Gutierrez, 32, a cousin of Glorias who was traveling with his daughter.

Its really not easy pursuing the American dream. We were 15 minutes from achieving our objective but they caught us out in the open, he added, saying he was not sure if he would try again.

Guatemalan farmer Jose Jimenezcrossed into the US with his son but was caught and deported.

He had saved up $1,300 and borrowed another $5,5000 to pay people traffickers, known as coyotes, for his passage into the US. He lost everything.

The coyotes tell you the passage into the US is open and all they do is demand money to cross the river into the US while threatening to kill you, said Jimenez.

If you dont pay, they hand you over to the mafia and the deal is done.

He will not try again.

Its tough, we all suffer, most of all the children, he said.

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In Chile, tensions between the central government and the border regions are increasing due to the increase in the flow of irregular migrants. From the Tarapac region they denounce the failure of the government of Sebastin Piera to address the migratory crisis, specifically with the deployment of the armed forces at the transitory point of Colchane.

The governor of Tarapac, Jos Miguel Carvajal, maintains a quite critical opinion and maintains that the decision to launch the program to bring order to the border did not generate any impact within its territory: We believe that the plan has been a failure of the Piera government, he says.

Javier Garca, mayor of Colchane, one of the municipalities most affected by the current crisis, believes that the Colchane plan does not exist. He says that the border has been militarized, but what the army has done in practice is control mobility or movementof the Chilean settlers and denounces that there is no concrete action that prevents the entry of immigrants.

In addition, irritation with Pieras policy has been exacerbated by the death of a Venezuelan migrant who tried to cross the border near Colchane on foot. The 56-year-old man died while trying to enter Chile from Bolivia through this cold highland region.

In total, there are already 11 migrants who have died in this non-authorized step so far in 2021.

In addition, it is worrying that of the 6,000 migrants estimated to have entered the country irregularly since the beginning of the year, more than 2,000 are children, many of them unaccompanied.

The situation is affecting the local population, as the journalist Rodrigo Martnez denounces, who tell how moved by the need to cover basic needs, such as hunger or cold, some migrants are entering houses of the local inhabitants.

Although most occupy the public space: the streets, avenues, squares or beaches. There is no basic service for them, there are no bathrooms, they cook outdoors. This is what, in one way or another, is causing the population some concern and there is outrage at the lack of response from the authorities, both the regional and national government in this regard, says Martnez.

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