Putin: You must close the loopholes for illegal immigrants – RIA Novosti

Novo-Ogaryovo, March 31 – RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said the need to strengthen the protection of state borders by closing loopholes for illegal migrants, as well as operational and preventive work in the migration environment

“It is necessary to strengthen the protection of areas of state borders in the directions, representing increased danger to the penetration of illegal immigrants, all possible windows and loopholes need to reliably block. It is necessary to strengthen cooperation with the competent authorities of foreign states and international organizations to use here as the existing experience, contacts, our existing and new forms of cooperation “, – Putin said at a meeting of the Security Council on Thursday

He also stated the need for greater prevention efforts in the migration

medium.. “Serious concern is not to reduce the crime rate among foreign nationals. This issue was raised at the recent board the Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General’s Office. Such offenses are usually resonant character, often they cause a surge of xenophobic nationalist sentiment, give rise to all sorts of information propaganda attacks . I beg to Russian authorities to seriously strengthen our operational and preventive work in the fight against crime in the migration environment, “- said Putin

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