Slovenia Toughens Law to Prevent Another Influx of Migrants

Slovenia's government approved amendments to its law on foreigners Thursday to enable police to seal the country's borders to illegal migrants for a limited period if needed. The changes, expected to be ratified by parliament, are meant to prevent a repeat of a six-month-long flood of migrants across Slovenia that ended in March 2016, when several countries to its south closed the main Balkan migration route. Around 500,000 illegal migrants crossed Slovenia, the smallest...

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