ER Editor: Some tweets about this. A geography reminder that Greece has been very hard hit over the years with illegals. The reports below reveal that a sizeable number are currently waiting to come over from Libya.
247 illegal migrants arrived by boat in Greece from Libya today.
They were all arrested.
Greece has suspended the right to apply for asylum and is now arresting people who arrive illegally.
If they don’t leave voluntarily, they could be sentenced to up to 2 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/pCEHq6ju9G
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 20, 2025
IT’S HAPPENING
Greece is now getting tough on mass migration.
A new draft law would mean that people who are in the country illegally will get sent to minimum 3 years prison if they don’t leave voluntarily.
This comes as they have stopped asylum applications from people from…
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) July 18, 2025
‘Don’t come here. We’ll put you in jail or send you home’ The message from Greece’s new immigration minister as his overwhelmed nation passes a hardline law
So will Keir Starmer take the slightest notice?https://t.co/SvR22fCqRT— Liz Kershaw (@LizKershawDJ) July 21, 2025
Greek authorities are moving illegal immigrants to jail camps until their deportation.Asylum applications have been cancelled by the country.
Who ever goes to Greece with a ship from Libya is considered an outlaw and is being jailed.
Immigrants must avoid Greece at all cost. pic.twitter.com/0tb6JIQvDU— George Limnios (@george_limnios) July 20, 2025
The Daily Mail has this —
‘Don’t come here. We’ll put you in jail or send you home’: That’s the message from Greece’s new immigration minister as his overwhelmed nation passes a hardline law. So will Keir Starmer take the slightest notice?
The Greek immigration minister does not mince his words. He may be new to the job but his message to the millions of young men waiting in North Africa to come to his country for a life in Europe is clear: ‘Don’t come here. We will put you in jail or send you back home.’
In an exclusive interview with the Mail, Thanos Plevris said: ‘The Greeks, like the rest of Europe, want to help real refugees, but we will not be taken for fools. It is the end of the fairy tale that those coming to Greece and Europe in incredible numbers are all women and children. They are mainly men aged between 18 and 30 who are economic migrants. We are not a hotel any more.
‘Many are from safe countries, such as Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Now we are telling them that if you sail in illegally by boat to Greece, do not expect asylum but get ready for five years in jail or a ticket home instead.’
Greece is on the frontline of Europe’s out-of-control migration crisis that, as Britons know well, has reached northern France where trafficking gangs are using fleets of small boats to send tens of thousands of migrants to Dover.
Greece, on the other side of the continent, has its own relentless wave of newcomers.
This year, at least 10,000 migrants have reached its biggest island, Crete, from lawless Libya a few hundred miles away across the Mediterranean Sea.
In the first week of this month alone, just after Mr Plevris was appointed immigration minister, a surge of 4,000 arrived illegally on the island, which is struggling to cope.
The coastguard and police are holding the uninvited foreigners in emergency camps in empty warehouses where they get a chilly welcome, basic rations and sleep on concrete floors. As we witnessed, they are young men growing dangerously angry while incarcerated against their will in the stifling summer heat.
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‘Our big problem today is with Libya and who they are sending over,’ the plain-speaking and unapologetic Mr Plevris told me as he promised to stifle the migration flow for ever.
‘Libya is using big vessels carrying 200, even 300, people. Of all those who have arrived, 85 per cent are male, and the majority of them are young. They are using Greece to enter Europe illegally for a new life.
‘If we just continue to sit and watch, it will never end. Three million migrants are today massing in Libya.
‘Now I plan to deter them from setting off for here.’ …
He is also reviewing the ‘current situation’ where migrants are placed, sometimes for years, in welcoming reception centres with ‘menu-style’ meals and state benefits, while it is decided if they are genuine refugees or not. … But in the few days since the law was voted in, no boats have arrived from Libya.
Worth our time.
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New Greek Law To Force Migrants Out or Lock Them Up
Greece is preparing to replace lenient deportation practices with automatic prison sentences for unauthorised migrants.
ESZTER BALOGI
Migrants after disembarking from a cargo ship in the port of Lavrio, south of Athens Aris MESSINIS / AFP
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The Ministry of Migration described the changes as a necessary step to balance the protection of human rights with the enforcement of the rule of law, safeguard social cohesion, and ensure national security. The draft legislation is expected to be submitted to Parliament in Athens in the coming days.
At present, individuals without legal status are typically held in deportation camps, where they may eventually be granted temporary leave. The proposed law would mark a sharp departure from this approach.
Under the draft, prison sentences for unauthorised stay would not be subject to suspension or reduction—except in cases where migrants agree to leave voluntarily, in which case the sentence may be lifted. “From now on, there will be only two paths: return or imprisonment,” the ministry said.
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