Finland Tightens Border Controls Against Unauthorized Kenyan Migration
Officers at the Finnish frontier have begun constructing barriers to prevent migrants from entering the country illegally through permeable points.
Officials assert that Finland will close main border crossings, leaving a single entry for asylum-seeking migrants to utilize.
Following the apprehension of approximately 600 migrants lacking appropriate documentation and visas. Including individuals from the Middle East and Africa, the nation enacted the aforementioned measure. Kenya was cited as one of the nations with the greatest influx of individuals migrating in search of improved living conditions overseas.
“We need to do this to maintain order (at the crossing points). And guarantee the security of legal border traffic,” Tomi Tirkkonen, deputy commander of the Kainuu border guard district in Eastern Finland, told the Associated Press.
In response to the directives, border guards and soldiers initiated the construction of concrete and barbed wire barriers. To prevent unauthorized migration across the checkpoints.
Later, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo confirmed the measures. He declined to confirm explicitly whether they were required in response to reports that Finland’s border operations differed from those of Russia.
Four border crossing points had already been closed by Finland. Which cited Russian government sabotage at its eastern border checkpoints last week as the reason.
Raja-Joosepppi was the only remaining open crossing point. As stated by the Prime Minister, with Vartius, Kuusamo, and Salla among those that were closed.
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Additionally, the Finnish government asserted that the migrants were coerced into entering the nation via the Russian frontier as retribution for their membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Russia opposes NATO, an intergovernmental military alliance comprised of thirty-one member states. Including two North American nations, the United States, and Canada, and 29 European nations. The expansion has the potential to adversely impact European security. Particularly in light of the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Russia and the United States.
However, according to Prime Minister Orpo, Finland’s measures “have sadly failed to halt this phenomenon; quite the opposite.”
The Finnish Border Guards estimate that the construction of the border barrier will require three to four years and have a potential lifespan of fifty years.
The majority of those impacted were young women and males, although some were families with children.
Finland Tightens Border Controls Against Unauthorized Kenyan Migration