Slovenia records tripling of illegal migrations in 2022

Slovenian police caught 32,042 illegal migrants on the border last year, an increase of 214% on the year before and the highest figure since the migration crisis in 2015, largely due to a huge influx of persons from Afghanistan, Burundi, India, Pakistan and Russia.

Afghanistan was the biggest single source country with 6,010 migrants recorded, nearly double the number of a year ago, show statistics released by Slovenian police.

More than 5,000 came from Burundi, whose nationals had barely registered in previous years. They took advantage of a loophole, since closed, that...