{"id":81013,"date":"2024-04-19T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/81013\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"illegal-migration-at-belarus-eu-border-has-almost-reached-last-years-level","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/81013\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal migration at Belarus-EU border has almost reached last year&#8217;s level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 19, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> EU countries yesterday stopped 146 illegal attempts to cross the border from Belarus, according to border statistics analyzed by <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polish Border Guard thwarted 144 attempts; their Latvian counterparts, two; and the Lithuanian border guards did not report any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, EU countries prevented 9,054 illegal crossings, including 7,634 to Poland, 1,259 to Latvia and 161 to Lithuania. Illegal migration since the beginning of the year has almost reached the level of the same period in 2023 (9,390).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, Belarus&#8217; EU neighbors recorded 4,262 attempts to violate the border from Belarus (Poland: 3,753; Latvia: 484; Lithuania: 25), 2.1 times more than in 18 days of April last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The migration crisis on the border of Belarus and EU countries has been going on since the spring of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/polskaja_granica_Straz_Graniczna_POZ_shot_1128_20240410-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/polskaja_granica_Straz_Graniczna_POZ_shot_1128_20240410-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/polskaja_granica_Straz_Graniczna_POZ_shot_1128_20240410-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/polskaja_granica_Straz_Graniczna_POZ_shot_1128_20240410-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/polskaja_granica_Straz_Graniczna_POZ_shot_1128_20240410-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/polskaja_granica_Straz_Graniczna_POZ_shot_1128_20240410.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Society<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Polish border guards prevent group of more than 200 migrants from crossing from Belarus<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">April 10, Pozirk. Border guards and soldiers in Poland&#039;s Podlaskie region stopped a group of more than 220 people coming from Belarus this morning, amid a spike in illegal migration, according to the Polish Border Guard. The group tried to &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/78996\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, Pozirk. EU countries yesterday stopped 146 illegal attempts to cross the border from Belarus, according to border statistics analyzed by Pozirk. The Polish Border Guard thwarted 144 attempts; their Latvian counterparts, two; and the Lithuanian border guards did not report any. In 2024, EU countries prevented 9,054 illegal crossings, including 7,634 to Poland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-81013","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Illegal migration at Belarus-EU border has almost reached last year&#039;s level | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 19, Pozirk. 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