On Thursday, raids against illegal migration will begin in Riga, previously promised by Deputy Chairman of the Riga City Council Edward Ratnieks. Riga Municipal Police will not catch people on the streets.
As the media have already announced, E. Ratnieks (National Association) announced at a press conference in August that they are calling for illegal immigrants to leave Riga and Latvia within a month. Yesterday, at a press conference, E. Ratnieks said Thursday’s raids would not be a one -day campaign, but a regular and systematic work. He called on Rigans who have information or suspicions about the gathering of illegal migrants, to report them to the Riga Municipal Police. Ratnieks said that the NA would continue to work on limiting legal migration. In his opinion, it is necessary to get the situation that all migrants entering Latvia then leave. If you arrive at the worker, you have to leave after the job, but if a student who stops his studies after a while, he has to leave, the politician said.
Survey
When it turns out that the illegally entered migrant is not a shelter, what to do for public authorities?
Will check the places of illegal accommodation
The Riga Municipal Police has conducted a month of research on places where persons in Latvia are meant to stay illegally. There has been a cooperation with neighborhood associations and residents have provided the police with information on such residence. As a result, these so -called raids will be directly related to these places. Riga Municipal Police Chief Juris Lukas has emphasized that these tests would not be disclosed as people’s inspections on the street. “Perhaps some imagination may have the impression when we will immediately close the city and check all the people who look different from us. It is not. It is not our main task to collect this information, cooperate with the competent authorities and work purposefully.
We have different types of information that these persons are staying, for example, in illegal accommodation, possibly in the attic and basements of the house, ”
said the Chief of the Riga Municipal Police. These tests do not turn to couriers and other people who, for example, work on the streets of Riga. It is also not intended to require tourists to present the documents. Asked whether the police would have enough resources to implement such raids, its chief emphasized that the capacity and competence of the police had now grown. “We see that most of society this issue is topical and we cannot remain indifferent. We have to respond to these challenges,” Luke said. Ratnieks believes that the first results of the raids will be visible at the end of October.
Another view of the mayor of Riga
Meanwhile, Riga City Council Chairman Viesturs Kleinbergs (“Progressive”) writes yesterday in tweet: “After Wednesday’s current press conference on illegal immigration, I am confused by Mr Ratnieks, as the vice mayor responsible for security and order, could not specifically answer journalists’ questions about such measures. The police, the National Security Service and the Ministry of the Interior are already providing inspections and security in their daily routine. “
The head of the State Border Guard, Guntis Pujāt, previously told LETA that Ratnieks exaggerates the problem of illegal migrants in the capital. E. Ratnieks informed at a press conference in August that from the beginning of this year, Riga Municipal Police had detained and handed over 22 persons to the State Border Guard. 23 persons were arrested last year and 24 persons in 2023. Puyat pointed out that it was a tiny part of the amount of migrants detained elsewhere in the country, or the Border Guard had not allowed them to cross the Latvian -Belarus border. At the same time, it cannot be denied that Latvia has been facing the pressure of illegal immigration caused by Russian allies for several years on the Latvian -Belarusian border.
Migrants “Workers”
On Wednesday, the Saeima Citizenship, Migration and Cohesion Commission addressed the issue of illegal migration control, and representatives of the Ministry of the Interior, the State Border Guard, the State Police, the State Security Service, the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs and the Riga Municipal Police were invited to the meeting.
Dmitry Vegner, a spokesman for the Criminal Instructing Management Department of the State Police, said that
The crimes committed by immigrants from third countries are most often caught by representatives of former Soviet republics.
In the European Union, with the term “third country”, all countries other than EU Member States or Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Switzerland.
Police -compiled data from January to the end of August indicate that “major non -workers” are immigrants from Ukraine, Russia and Moldova, a police spokesman said.
“When it comes to further lands, there have been 19 offenses committed by the Uzbek people. Followed by Azerbaijani residents with 18 crimes, Indian representatives with nine crimes, people of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia with eight crimes, Tajikistan. According to him, the police are observing a tendency to form closed ethnic groups. They are gradually increasing, and in the near future there are “consequences”. According to a police officer, the control system of illegal migrants in Latvia is not fully thoughtful and is not always effective.
Deputy Chief of the National Security Service (VDD) Eric Zinkus Commission informed that the Ministry of the Interior is currently working on an information report on measures to restrict migration risks. The report will include bids for amendments to regulatory enactments, including the Law on Immigration and Higher Education Institutions. “There will be specific tasks for both staff training and access to various databases and services,” Zinkus said. He believes that all services involved have a clear importance of illegal migration risks, but their weakest point is resources, including staff, so they are working on problems.
The Saeima Press Service informs that the Parliament will decide on Thursday, September 25, on the amendments to the law, which will strictly restrict the granting of residence permits to foreigners with criminal records.
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