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Greece Scraps Asylum Requests for Migrant 'Troublemakers'

Anthee Carassava

   ATHENS - Greece says it will deport "migrant troublemakers" to their
   homelands in a bid to combat rising crime and surging migration inflows
   that have reached a breaking point for the refugee-swollen country.

   The announcement by Public Order Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis
   follows the recent deadly shooting of a 23-year-old Afghan man in a
   heated standoff with a rival Pakistani gang in central Athens. It also
   follows violent clashes between police and thousands of asylum seekers
   who took to the streets of Lesbos earlier this month to protest living
   conditions on the island's overcrowded camp, and tougher asylum
   regulations enforced by the new conservative government of Kyriakos
   Mitsotakis.

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