Migrants protest on Greece-Macedonia border

Republicans say tighter restrictions are needed following last week's attacks in Paris. "In Syria there is war".

"When you have numbers of people backing up at any one of these points, you have a problem with insufficient accommodation and that as we head into winter is a serious, serious worry", Adrian Edwards, spokesman for UNHCR said, calling Balkan countries to expand their shelter capacity. "I am a Christian and face persecution in my country". He repeated that Britain's two military bases on Cyprus are "not a back door" to migration into the United Kingdom.

Their number is growing, as the Greek authorities are allowing all those who arrive to their islands to proceed to Macedonia, noted Macedonian media.

Information for this article was contributed by staff members of The Associated Press. However, they are unanimous in their intention not to leave the location, claiming they have no place to return to.

An official told the AP earlier this week that Cypriot authorities won't consider the asylum applications of at least six individuals for security reasons. Slovenia later Thursday said it will allow those migrants to proceed toward Austria.

Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia have taken similar stances.

The move left hundreds of people stranded on borders.

Prosecutor Jan Reckendorff says he wants the man, whom he didn't identify, to be fined for violating Danish immigration laws that forbids assisting foreigners to enter Denmark illegally. Croatia refused 162 migrants from Morocco rejected by Slovenia. With thousands more people on the way, action is urgently needed to reverse this worsening disaster.

"Refugee and migrant children are amongst the worst off", said UN Children's Fund spokeswoman Sarah Crowe.

On Macedonia's southern border with Greece, crowds of people were backed up, denied entry.

On the Croatia-Serbia border, Croats are allowing in only from these three countries, plus Palestine. "Hungary has diverted the migrant flow by building razor-wire fences on its borders with Serbia & Croatia.Gruevski stated the flow of a few 10,000 migrants a day had grow to be a "constant burden" on Macedonian resources & referred to as for larger cooperation between the Balkan states & the European Union to unravel the crisis".

About 1,300 refugees protested on Saturday against the decision by Macedonian authorities across the border to turn away refugees who are not from war zones such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

For his part, Serbian labour and social affairs minister Aleksandar Vulin said Thursday his country had no choice but to respond.