Migrants also flooded

Slovenia is a very "lucky" country. In 2022, almost the entire Karst landscape was on fire. In 2023, there were catastrophic floods in Slovenia. And of course, the number of unauthorized entries into Slovenia also increased in 2023. In fact, we also got a flood of illegal migration.

Namely, in 2023 there were 84,1% more unauthorized entries into Slovenia. In 2022, there were 31.605 such unauthorized entries. In 2023, as many as 58.193. The largest number of unauthorized entries into Slovenia came from Afghanistan (30.6%), Morocco (15.2%) and Pakistan (8.9%), Russia and Bangladesh.

With these data, I should mention that Celje, the third largest city in Slovenia, had 49.069 inhabitants in 2020. Or a better comparison is with Maribor, which had a population of 96.302 in 2022 and is the second largest city in Slovenia. And I don't think we can take solace in the fact that the capital city of Ljubljana has a much larger population of 293.218 than the number of migrants who crossed the border illegally in 2023 (58.193), which exceeds the number of inhabitants in Celje.

The number of expressed intentions to apply for international protection also increased by 85,8%. They are also mostly from Afghanistan, Morocco and Pakistan.

But we Slovenians can be "happy" because in 2023, the Directorate of the Uniformed Police, Border Police Sector discovered fewer cases of illegal stay in Slovenia. In 2023, which is also the year of the floods, only 2.065 foreigners were found to be illegally residing in Slovenia. In 2022, there were as many as 4.462 such cases. In 2023, citizens of Moldova, MKD (Macedonia), Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia were most likely to stay illegally in Slovenia.

In 2023, the border police sector handed over only 257 persons to foreign security authorities. In 2022, however, they managed to extradite as many as 2.361 persons.