Russian migration authority opposes amnesty for illegal migrants

Sergey Temryukovich, head of the section for foreign labor migrants of the Russian Migration Service, believes that an amnesty for illegal migrants would do no good and cause problems for legally-working migrants, RIA Novosti reports.Instead, the official proposed preventing illegal migrants. He reminded that access to the country had been closed to over 300,000 violators.

Sergey Temryukovich, head of the section for foreign labor migrants of the Russian Migration Service, believes that an amnesty for illegal migrants would do no good and cause problems for legally-working migrants, RIA Novosti reports.

Instead, the official proposed preventing illegal migrants. He reminded that access to the country had been closed to over 300,000 violators.