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The Northminster Dispatch

Home Ministry reports of "increased" immigration coming from border nations

September 5578

Fort William - Immigraton has, usually, not been a great concern to most of the Luthorian populace, as such, it has not been a real concern to most Luthorian politicians, due to it, as stated earlier, not being much of a concern to most Luthorians. Yet, in the present day, it seems that this spirit has begin to shift somewhat. Recently, neighboring states of Luthori have seen some radical political development, the most notable one being the dissapearence of Narikaton and Darnussia's President, Mrs. zum Clenonberg and the subsuquent military overthrow of Narikaton and Darnussia's democratically elected government by Mrs. Theodora Lackmann and the Narik-Darnussian Armed Forces. Due to this increased instablity in the Artanian continent, Luthori's reaction has been muted, Luthorian business putting pressure to Darlington Palace to remain "on good terms" with the new Lackmann Administration, due to economic interests of Luthorian shareholders in Narikaton and Darnussia, and the wish for it to be "preserved". Regardless of political and economic thought on the relation between Luthori and Narikaton and Darnussia, which seems to be decreasing day-by-day, especially considering the Narik-Darnussian wishes to join the Jelbic Empire, which has drawn concern in Fort William, considering the bad relations between Wiel and Luthori.

As stated, regardless of that, the border situation between Luthori and Narikaton & Darnussia, among other, seems to have taken a turn for the worse, with the Border Patrol Office reporting the illegal trepassing of the Luthori-Darnussian border in the Principality of Orange numerous times during the last 6 years since the military coup took place. The Home Secretary, Garrett William Rogers, has been reported to be "highly distraught" of these reports and is stated with the wish of "increasing border security" and "border patrols" to secure Luthorian sovereignty against illegal immigrants. Yet, the threat isn't even coming from Narikaton and Darnussia alone, another immigrant spike has been reported coming out of the shared Beluzian-Luthorian border. Yes, the Republic of Beluzia, a country while bordering the Luthorian Empire, most of us have never heard stories from. Mostly due to the fact is one, if not the one, of the poorest states in the Continent, if not the poorest one. An assertion could only be made towards the affirmation that Beluzia's economic status is similar to countries such as ones in Dovani, which are, for the most part, considered to be underdeveloped.

The reason for these increased departures from both countries couldn't be sharkly different from one another. For Beluzia, the economy and wealth was the primary motive behind most people's aspiration to leave the country, as stated earlier, the economic situation of the country is one of the worst in the World at the present moment and many Beluzians are seemingly thrived by the prospect of fleeing their nation, but not to go everywhere, that is. Most of them are either thinking of going to Narikaton and Darnussia, whose economic strength is not to understate, far from that, but also, most of them are thinking of going to Luthori, why wouldn't they? Luthori has a large border with them, which is normally easy to access, if not considering the Black Mountain Chain separating both nations, Luthori also represents a kind " homely" feeling, as most Beluzians are descendent of Luthorians, due to the long history of Luthorian dominion over the Beluzian territory. As such, cultural similarities emerges between both states, especially as Beluzians are speaking a Luthorian akin to the one used in Luthori [ie. Beluzian Luthorian], albeit with more distinct features coming from Caldorian Luthorian and Kilani Luthorian present in Rutania.

For most of its history, Narikaton and Darnussia has been a central player in Artania, recently becoming something akin to a burgeoning democracy, yet all of this came crashing down when Mrs. Lackmann made her military coup with the Narik-Darnussian military and secret service to "restore order and stability" to the nation. Since then, while Narikaton and Darnussia's economy recovered from the economic fallout of the military coup, with Narik-Darnussian communication stating that "life returned to normal" in the immediate aftermath of the Coup, a move meant to reassure the Yeudis and Dundorfians. Since then, most illegal and legal immigration has been drived by fear of becoming a target of Mrs. Lackmann's Government. Many political exiles, ones coming from the left-wing of Narik-Darnussian political society fled to either Dundorf or Luthori during the Premiership of Carolina Pryce. This trends only continues today, as most immigrants coming from the country are seeking bigger political freedoms than the one they have at home.

For the Tory Government however, this is a serious crisis, the Tories ran a campaign focused around "stable governance for another decade of Tory rule", but these unforseen developments at the southern border may put into jeopardy their entire campaign manifesto.

Fort William has pledged to open up communications routes with Cirrane to explore different venues for the crisis and explore increased relations between Luthori and its western neighbor, the Imperial Government also pledged to continue discussing with Bannerhafen to resolve this issue as "fast as possible", according to a statement issued by a press representative of the Home Secretary. For his part, Mr. Rogers has been increasing calls for an increased border security with other border states to "avoid an envenoming of the current delicate in our western and southern border", he is also calling the Treasury to invest "massively" into domestic security, by increasing the funds allocated to the Police and Border Security Office, alongside giving the DIA (Domestic Intelligence Agency) more power to deal with these "migrants", Crown Street seems to be supportive of the Home Secretary's wishes, as an aide to the Prime Minister stated that "the border situation would need an increased look from Fort William, alongside an increase of capabilities for Provincial Governments to deal with the crisis"

The Luthorian Analysis for Immigration has decompted that illegal immigration coming from Beluzia and Narikaton and Darnussia had risen by over 21 % over 6 years, most of it being focused in Beluzia. While legal immigration had risen by 14.5 %, most of it coming from Narikaton and Darnussia, through asylum requests for the most part.

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