Latvia Starts Pushing Back Migrants at Tense Belarus Border

Detained migrants, who have crossed the Belarus-Latvia border, walk next to the border area near Vorzova, Latvia, Aug. 11, 2021. Ints Kalnins/Reuters

ROBEZNIEKI, Latvia—Latvian border guards turned back dozens of illegal migrants into Belarus overnight under a new state of emergency designed to stem a flow of arrivals the European Union says is orchestrated by Minsk.

At daybreak on Wednesday some 30 migrants—including women and toddlers—started a camp fire to warm up after a night of walking through fields in northern Belarus to the frontier.