RIGA - Residents in Mucenieki village in central Latvia, the home of the country’s sole asylum-seeker reception centre, are protesting government plans to build a detention centre there as well, which residents call “a jail” for illegal immigrants.
The Latvian government recently granted 4 million euros for renovation and expansion of the asylum-seeker centre in Mucenieki. In addition to more living quarters for asylum-seekers, a boiler room and a multi-functional centre which would cater also to the needs of the local population, it is planned to renovate two aba...
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