Slovakian police check a vehicle at the Slovakia-Hungary border in Sahy, Slovakia, as Slovakia officially imposed temporary controls on its border with Hungary due to a rising number of illegal migrants coming on the Balkans route, October 5, 2023. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
NITRA, Slovakia (Reuters) - Illegal migrants kept arriving at a police registration centre in southern Slovakia on Thursday, as border controls imposed by the government appeared not to have deterred smugglers who had dropped them on the Hungarian side overnight.
By 10 a.m. (0900 GMT) Slovak police had detained around 70 illegal migrants and driven them to the registration centre in the town of Nitra, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the border with Hungary. They had crossed the green border - a 655-km stretch, partly along the meandering and shallow Ipel river, that is virtually impossible to seal.
