Immigration News 2015: Migrant crisis - Other states follow Germany's tracks on imposing border checks
A few hours after Germany set up checkpoints on its border, Austria, Slovakia, and the Netherlands also said they would impose the checks.
According to Reuters, the unprecedented influx of migrants has already broken the record for the most arrivals of refugees in one day. The states that followed swiftly after Germany's course said they are trying to control the crisis that has started to take Europe by fire.
The border checks will be targeted toward the thousands of refugees who are pressing north and west across the continent. Hungary, on the other hand, has sealed its main border, which is the crossing point into the European Union.
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So far, about 40,000 migrants have been spread out on a voluntary basis among EU states. Recently, a group of EU interior ministers have met up in Brussels and agreed to share out another 120,000 asylum seekers, the details of the meetings set to be formalized on Oct. 8. However, reports say a number of former Communist states in central Europe are rejecting mandatory quotas, as agreed upon during the meetings.
According to BBC News, Hungary will be enforcing stricter measures, including the arrest of illegal immigrants. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with Hungary's TV2 that there will most "likely" be a declaration of emergency in the border.
Earlier, Hungary has used a container wagon to block the gape in a fence near Roszke where migrants are passing through. One end of the wagon was covered in razor wire.
Meanwhile, Austrian police reported that about 7,000 people have arrived from Hungary since Monday, and 14,000 moved to the state on Sunday.
Although troops are being deployed to provide humanitarian assistance to the refugees, Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner clarified that, "If Germany carries out border control, Austria must put strengthened border controls in place."
Most of the migrants who are seeking asylum in European countries left their homes due to the conflict, oppression, and poverty left by war in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea.
