immigration

Riding a bike with a rescue team in the Bosnian mountains means that you will undoubtedly witness some surprises. Many migrants take the mountain path every day in an attempt to cross the border into the European Union countries illegally. The mountainous region northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina finds hundreds of immigrants, and this region is several kilometers from Croatia, one of the gateways to the European Union, whose country of residence is the dream of millions of immigrants around the world. Bosnian Bihac Bihać, the Bosnian town located near the border with the European Union, is where migrants receive warm meals and food supplies distributed to them by international organizations. Winter is knocking on the doors, the temperature has dropped to freezing point, cold nights surround the official residence centers, tents and abandoned buildings where migrants spend their lives with their dreams of reaching Western European countries. Young Bilal told Euronews: “I am coming from Pakistan, and I am going to Spain. (But first) we have to cross into Croatia. I am making bread because the food here is not good. (The borders) are closed, yes, and this is the problem. The borders are closed. We tried to cross into Croatia three times and did not succeed.” In front of the ruins of an abandoned student dormitory, in Bihac, migrants sit cross-legged. Parts of the building are hidden behind the darkness of the place. We try to dispel the darkness using a cell phone, perhaps allowing us to feel the way in this maze. Here, groups of migrants have always quarreled among themselves, and every time, special Bosnian forces rushed to the place to arrest the troublemakers. As a result, the media was prevented from approaching, but Euronews was able to arrive. The road to Croatia The Pakistani young man, Shehzad Khan, is one of the immigrants in this dormitory. He left his country two years ago after participating in a vaccination campaign in an area near Afghanistan, where he received threats from the Taliban. He is now seeking asylum in Europe. In response to a question from Euronews envoy Hans van der Breele if he had tried to cross into the European Union, Baba replied: “Yes, one time I crossed the border from Croatia into Slovenia. The Slovenian police arrested me and returned me to Bosnia. (First) they returned me to Croatia, and then the Croatian police handed me over to the Bosnian police.” Are you saying that the authorities in Slovenia did not care about what you told them? - “Yes, the Slovenian authorities did not care about our words. We repeated to them several times that we needed protection, but they did not conduct any interviews, did not take any documents from us, and did not allow us to go to the asylum office. We told them that we needed a lawyer, but they did not give us the opportunity to meet with a lawyer.” Migrants in Bihac are still trying to cross the border into Croatia. Some of them failed once, others twice, and perhaps three or more... but it seems that despair has not yet crept into their souls. Between the years two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen, about one million immigrants and refugees took the Western Balkan route through Serbia to Hungary before the latter decided to close its borders. In the year two thousand and eighteen, immigrants discovered a new route through Bosnia, which twenty-one thousand people took, but Croatia strengthened its security measures to prevent their entry. It is worth noting that in a month