He said they were being detained to check for health problems and contagious diseases and that Greece would use 250m euros in EU funding to build the centres and house 30,000 immigrants. "Whoever [illegally] enters the country will be given hospitality and will be immediately asked to return home," Chrysohoidis said at a news conference. "Unless they are refugees ... in which case they have a sacred right to asylum."
On je rekao da se imigranti privode kako bi se proverilo da li imaju zdravstvenih problema i prenosive bolesti, te da će Grčka iskoristiti 250 miliona evra sredstava EU za izgradnju centara i smeštanje 30.000 imigranata. „Ko god [ilegalno] uđe u zemlju biće smešten i odmah će od njega biti zatraženo da se vrati kući“, rekao je Krisohoidis na konferenciji za novinare. „Ukoliko se ne radi o izbeglicama ... u tom slučaju oni imaju neotuđivo pravo na azil.“