{"id":7335,"date":"2021-09-05T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7335"},"modified":"2021-09-25T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T19:07:11","slug":"belarus-floods-eu-with-migrants-from-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2021\/09\/05\/belarus-floods-eu-with-migrants-from-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Floods EU with Migrants from Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2021\/09\/05\/belarus-floods-eu-with-migrants-from-middle-east\/poland-belarus-eu-migrants-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7337\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/belarus-illegal-migrants-eu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/belarus-illegal-migrants-eu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/belarus-illegal-migrants-eu-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are pouring into the European Union from Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Belarus Floods EU with Migrants from Middle East<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17715\/belarus-eu-illegal-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | September 5, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are pouring into the European Union from Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. The surge in illegal immigration is being orchestrated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is accused of trying to blackmail the EU into reversing the sanctions it imposed over his disputed reelection and a crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the migrants are being flown to Belarus from the Middle East and then bussed to EU borders by Belarusian authorities. The trips are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/europe\/eu-announces-more-sanctions-belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized<\/a> by Belarus\u2019s state-owned tourism agency, which charges migrants between $1,800 to $12,000.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people illegally entering the EU from Belarus increased sharply after Lukashenko <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.by\/en\/documents\/ukaz-no-251-ot-1-iyulya-2021-g-1625207855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a decree<\/a> on July 1 that allows citizens of more than 70 countries to travel to Belarus without visas and stay for up to five days, ostensibly to get Covid-19 vaccine shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17715\/belarus-eu-illegal-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are pouring into the European Union from Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,202],"tags":[236,208,238,237,195,201],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-migration-crisis","tag-belarus","tag-eastern-europe","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-migration-crisis","tag-poland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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