Romania sent back 24 migrants including Bangladeshis
September 18, 20242 Mins Read
International Desk: Between August 28 and September 3, the Romanian border police sent 23 migrants from different countries back to their country under police guard. In addition, a young Bangladeshi immigrant was also sent back on September 14, Bucharest said.
The 23 people sent in the first round were taken to the airport from detention centers in the Romanian cities of Arad and Otopeni. Among the migrants were 19 men and four women.
As these migrants became irregular in Romania for various reasons, they were sent back under police guard. Those repatriated include citizens of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Vietnam, Nepal, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka.
22 of the 23 entered Romanian territory with valid visas. Of them, 20 entered the country on work permits or work visas and two on tourist visas. Besides, one reached the country through irregular means.
The 23 migrants were deported on several separate flights from the country's Cluj Napoca International Airport and Bucharest's Henri Quanda International Airport.
23 migrants have been banned from entering the EU member states, the European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation for six months to five years when leaving the country.
Since April this year, the country's immigration police have been trying to efficiently manage migration flows since it partially entered the Schengen zone, Europe's free movement zone. The second operation was conducted last Saturday (September 14). On that day, a 24-year-old Bangladeshi youth was sent back to Dhaka by the Romanian border police. He took a valid visa in 2023 but failed to renew the visa.
He was later flown back on a commercial flight from Bucharest's Henri Quanda International Airport. Upon leaving the border, he is banned from entering Romania, the EU, the European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation for the next five years.
Romania's partial entry into Schengen means that migrants residing in the country can travel visa-free to the Schengen zone by air if they have a residence permit. But they cannot cross the border by road and go to other countries.
In such a situation, among the regular immigrants coming to the country who become irregular due to employers or other reasons, they want to go to Western European countries through Hungary by riding a lorry or a car in an irregular way. But the migrants are often caught by the joint patrols of Bulgaria, Türkiye and Romania at the borders. Authorities issued legal decisions against those detected at the border. Infomigrants.
