Vilnius, Lithuania: Lithuanian border guard service said it held 171 people capturing illegal crossings from Belarus to Lithuania on Tuesday night, the largest number in one day by 2021 and brought the total number of migrants held so far to 3,027.
Border services say migrant groups, all from Iraq, will be placed in one of the crowded Lithuanian immigration detention centers.
Illegal migration to Lithuania began to grow dramatically after new sanctions imposed on government officials in neighboring Belarus.
In July around 2,366 migrants were detained, up from 473 in June, and compared to 81 for all years ago.
Lithuania accused the Belarusian authorities to organize border crossings by people from the Middle East and Africa.
The European Union border control body has promised to increase support to Lithuania to help stem the arrival.
, Lithuanian authorities believe most people who try to enter this country travel to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in one of the four weekly flights from Iraq carrying up to 500 passengers in Boeing 747.
Foreign Minister Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis visited Baghdad this month for talks with Iraqi officials.
Violence protests broke out in the Salcininkai District of Lithuania this week when local residents blocked the road and burned a temporary tire against the government’s plan to establish a new immigration detention center nearby.
The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and arrest eight protesters.
Two officers were injured.
Lithuania said the inclusion was a retaliation by President Belarusian Alexander Lukashenko.
Since the election of authoritarian leaders to the sixth term in voting in August 2020 that the West who was criticized as cheating, he had slumped opposition protests in his country.
Illegal border intersection to Lithuania passes 3,000
