His first decisions and guidelines on immigration policy and asylum grants, said Minister of Migration and Asylum Thanos Plevris, answering a current question by New Left MP Nassos Iliopoulos, in the direction of the European and Migration Policy

The minister stressed that “the country is no longer a lighthouse of illegal immigration. Anyone who comes to Greece and is not entitled to international protection is not welcome. The Ministry of Immigration Policy and Asylum will no longer be a hotel for anyone who comes to our country. For those who come who are not entitled to asylum, the choice will be a return or a prison. “

Mr Plevris said that the bill prepared by Makis Voridis’ predecessor will be consulted next time and has three iconic elements: they will know those who enter the Greek territory that there is no legitimacy mechanism. If it is considered that he cannot get asylum, his choice will be to leave the country, on the contrary, he will face the criminal offense of staying, which will be executed immediately as soon as he is tried and goes to prison.

Referring to the four days that are Minister of Immigration and Asylum, he said that “I have taken the following actions: I have asked to have the exact cost of each immigrant in structure and to re -enact all benefits and benefits given, because we have to respect the money and the money of the Greeks and the money. immigrants.

I asked to control the “cents to the cents” that have been given to NGOs because all EU programs pass through NGOs, whose role is not altruistic but profession. In the revision of asylum, which is done in the context of the European Pact, I ordered provisions to have a more rigorous asylum policy.

As part of the new Rules of Refunds, which is currently being launched to the EU, already at a meeting I had on Tuesday with the European Commissioner, I informed him that we want to have a much toughest refunds in granting the asylum and stages that exist, which are now a deterrent to returns. ” At the same time, he said: “We are in consultation to increase returns flights, because we can really have more returns with the existing regime. We go in the direction to apply administrative detention as a deterrence. “

Mr Plevris also said that, with the Deputy Minister, the Ministerial Decision is preparing to find out to find out. It is noted that “anyone who refuses to do the relevant medical examinations to determine his minority will be considered an adult”.

The minister said he is “a fan of the political existence of disincentives for those who come to our country and are not entitled to international asylum, that is, they are illegal immigrants” as, as he pointed out, “they exploit the status of a refugee who is in danger – and they are in danger.”

Regarding the existence of disincentives to illegal immigrants, he said: “I may have stated it in 2011, but you, joining the SYRIZA government of Alexis Tsipras, did so in 2016 with the existence of the Moria, with a world that was four and five times above.”

He defended the political disincentives for irregular immigrants, saying that out of “22,000 who sought asylum in the first five months of 2025, 75% are men although women are basically suppressed by the regimes of the coming countries. Of 75% of men asylum seekers, 58% are aged 24 to 60 years and if we take into account those who are at the limit of minority – as they hide their actual age – we reach 66%. One in two have come to the country illegally and they have to leave. “

Mr Plevris pointed out that since 2019 the ND and the Prime Minister have been making these positions on the measures and controls of immigration and the EU has changed and has come to these positions, stressing that migration policy should be “tough” and fair.

Concerning the guarding of the border, the minister said that this is not the responsibility of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum. “The storage of the marine borders belongs to the Coast Guard, which has been managed by another ministry and has saved over 300,000 human lives over the years, even though the CSR executives have often been targeted by your party and the left.”

New Left MP Nassos Iliopoulos, citing a public speech by the Minister in 2011, of the “far -right” as he described it as a “PATRIA” magazine, said: “You had said that” border guard can not exist if there are no losses. He must seem paradise in what they will live here “” “The MP added that” these statements are raw and unmistakable in violation of human value and international obligations in the country. These are racist statements that brutally affect the principles of the rule of law, humanity, constitutional protection of life and inhumane and degrading. “

Mr Iliopoulos argued that “the position of the Minister of Immigration and Asylum who has made such placements raises reasonable questions about the direction of government policy in refugee and immigrants, as well as the country’s institutional credibility against the European Court of Justice,” To accept an immigration minister who has proposed life losses as a way of managing the immigration problem. “

The MP has attributed to the government’s immigration policy and the granting of selectivity, about those who have money and those who have not come and live honestly for decades, while referring to political tooling of immigration for far -right audiences.