Human migration

Coast guard vessels were seeking five undocumented immigrants who went missing early on Saturday off the coast of Gera on the island of Lesvos in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

Twenty-eight illegal immigrants have been detained at Bulgaria's 'green' border in the last 24 hours, Interior Ministry said.

The border police are assisted by additional teams who accompany the detainees, and process documents and police records, News.bg informs.

Bulgaria is now fully prepared for the migrant wave and is expecting it, but is not so attractive anymore, said Nikolai Chirpanliev, head of the State Refugee Agency (SRA). 

A total of 633 migrants returned to their native countries from Greece in March according to figures released by the Public Order Ministry on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbia does not accept the recommendation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the cessation of refugee status of refugees from Croatia and will continue to provide full protection and support to all refugees in its territory, Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSP) released on Friday.

BELGRADE- Serbia does not accept the recommendation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the cessation of refugee status of refugees from Croatia and will continue to provide full protection and support to all refugees in its territory, Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSP) released on Friday.

Refugees in Bulgaria are staging a protest to demand papers allowing them to head for Germany or another EU member state.

The protest is to be held Wednesday in front of the European Commission Representation in Sofia, according to reports of Trud daily.

Amnesty International

European countries must not transfer any asylum seekers to Bulgaria until the country truly improves its appalling reception conditions and addresses its deeply flawed asylum procedures, said Amnesty International.

Authorities in Mexico announced they had rescued 370 migrant children who had apparently been abandoned by traffickers paid to take them to the United States.

Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement on Saturday that the children had been found in the period March 17-24 on the territory of 14 Mexican states.

Sixty-one illegal immigrants were apprehended at Bulgaria's “green” border with Turkey in the last 24 hours, Interior Ministry said. 

They are taken to the primary holding centers and are receiving medical attention. Later they will be processed in accordance with the legal requirements.