Some 7600 Migrants Enter Macedonia From Greece In 24 Hours

Crossing Greece to the FYROM border is just the first of many challenges facing the migrants in a Europe where their reception ranges from hospitality to hostility.

As recently as last week, those making the epic journey, much of it on foot, were baking in a region-wide heatwave and free to sleep under the stars.

“There’s an estimated 8,000 unaccompanied refugee children in Serbia alone right now”. Police briefly closed the A4 expressway to vehicles because of the potential dangers of so many migrants.

Worldwide aid workers said Hungary has failed to provide sufficient shelter at migrant bottlenecks on the border, particularly near the village of Roszke.

Hungary said 3,331 people had registered after entering from Serbia on Wednesday, the highest daily total so far. We are under rain for seven hours. We will die if we stay here in the rain for a another hour.

She said Hungary should deploy “big tents where people can come, sleep and have a rest”.

“The coast guard are patrolling the waters around the island – we are only a few miles from Turkey – and they are out in the waters to pick up anyone that gets stranded”. He wanted to fly back to Iraq, he said, he couldn’t bear the conditions any more to reach Europe.

Police official Hans Peter Doskozil said 7,500 people crossed into Austria at Nickelsdorf on Thursday.

Austrian police have shut down sections of the roadway between Vienna and the Hungarian border as asylum-seekers have formed a long line and are walking toward the capital. Then at daybreak, the smuggler made them carry the heavy bins containing the dinghy and a brand new engine for it right down to the seashore, the place they needed to assemble it as nicely.

Some parents raised their children high in the air so Macedonian police would let them through the checkpoints first.

“My husband is waiting for me in Vienna”.

On one Facebook group, for example, Syrians and others who already made the trip across the Aegean Sea share the names and telephone numbers of good smugglers in Turkey, warn of pitfalls and give other advice. We waited for 10 days to get our papers. The worldwide Organisation for Migration has put the figure at more than 432,000. That shattered previous forecasts that such traffic might reach 400,000 by the end of 2015.

“The conditions were awful, but there were more than 10,000 people”.

However, a survey by the Elabe polling agency showed French support for taking in more migrants from war zones had jumped to 53 percent from 44 percent only a week before, suggesting that harrowing images of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi and the warm welcome extended by neighboring Germany were having an impact.

Denmark initially sought to block hundreds of asylum seekers from trying to pass through the country to Sweden, another top destination because of its strong reputation for welcoming refugees.