Lithuania pays illegal Muslim migrants $1,125 to go home

Lithuania, like Poland, has been under severe pressure imposed by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s “hybrid war” against the European Union. In August, Lithuania declared a “state-level extreme situation” over the migrant crisis as some 4,000 illegals, mostly from Iraq, crossed the border between Belarus and Lithuania. Also in that month, Muslims threatened Lithuania with jihad bombings at shopping malls, entertainment centers and office buildings, which would of course have prompted even more concern about border security. By the end of August, the small embattled country joined a list of other EU countries to build a wall to protect its “border of democracy” from the surge of Muslim migrants.

Now Lithuania is paying Muslim migrant deportees to go back to Iraq. Lithuania should not be in this position in the first place. But it fights two forces: illegal migrants (caused by Belarus’ vengeful Lukashenko) beating down its borders, and EU globalists, pressuring sensible EU countries (including Lithuania) to fling open their doors to unvetted migration as a “human right.

After a cost-benefit analysis, Lithuania opted to pay the Iraqi migrants, who took the money and went back home peacefully. For now.

“Lithuania pays migrants €1,000 to return to Iraq,” by Joao Vitor Da Silva Marques, EuroNews, January 22, 2022:

The largest group of migrants to break through the Lithuanian-Belarusian border at the height of the latest migrant crisis has been returned to Baghdad.

98 Iraqis were offered a one-time payment of €1,000 to board the flight.

According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs, all went voluntarily.

“We estimate how much it costs for us one migrant,” said Agnè Bilotaite, Lithuanian Minister of the Interior. “The basic cost of maintaining one migrant is €11,000 per year. It is obviously much more profitable for us to offer a benefit, buy a ticket or arrange a flight and thus have fewer challenges and other problems.”

Since the beginning of the migration crisis, Vilnius has expelled more than 500 migrants who arrived via Belarus.

Over 3,000 remain in Lithuanian refugee centres.

“We need to start thinking what we will do when the term in refugee centres will be over,” said Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary committee for human rights. “To talk about integration. Otherwise, they will try to reach other European countries.”

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, followed by the EU, the US and other western countries accused the government of Alexander Lukashenko of using illegal migrants to solve political problems.

Minsk and Moscow blame Europe for the crisis and for the fate of refugees…..