Greece has increased the presence of border police at the Greek-Turkish border to prevent a surge of  migrants from Afghanistan, while joining 12 other EU countries that have sent a letter to the EU, calling for “more extensive EU measures against illegal immigration,” and requesting funding to build border walls. Aside from Greece, the countries include Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia.

1.3 million mostly Muslim migrants entered the EU in 2015 alone. Since then, massive numbers of economic migrants have illegally crossed into the EU and the UK, heading to the countries of their choice, particularly those with better benefits. Six years later, given countless reports of high crime among migrants in the EU, jihadist infiltration of refugee streams, the establishment of no-go zones, the proliferation of jihad preaching, and the inability of many to assimilate, many EU countries are starting to rethink the wisdom of open-door immigration policies.

Lithuania, Poland and Hungary have already erected walls to keep out illegal migrants, while Denmark plans to begin undoing the immigration policy of its predecessors, with a goal of deporting up to 35,000 migrants by 2030.