While Slovenia has said it can handle only
2,500 migrants a day, Slovenia's police said that some 8,300 migrants
seeking to head toward Western Europe were currently in reception
centres in the small country, with thousands more arriving.
Police in riot gear surrounded hundreds of
migrants in a muddy field near the border village of Rigonce, from where
they were to be escorted on foot to an already overcrowded reception
centre some 9 miles away.
"The pressure of immigrants arriving from
Croatia is intensifying," the Slovenian government said in a statement.
"They send immigrants toward Slovenia without control, deliberately
dispersed."
Croatia did not seem ready to slow the
flow. On Tuesday morning, a train carrying more than 1,000 migrants from
the town of Tovarnik and some 20 buses full of migrants from the
Opatovac refugee camp were headed toward the Slovenian border.
Slovenia's parliament is expected to decide
later on Tuesday on a government proposal to allow the army to assist
police with border control.
Slovenian authorities say 6,000 migrants
arrived on Monday and at least 4,000 more, including many babies and
young children, had entered the country early Tuesday.
Slovenia has been confronted by the surge
since Hungary closed its border with Croatia to the free flow of
migrants on Saturday, forcing migrants to find new routes to Austria,
Germany and other favoured destinations in the European Union.
Not a single migrant has entered Hungary
from Croatia since the border was closed with a fence protected by razor
wire, soldiers and police patrols
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