Croatia closed its borders Friday in response to the overwhelming number of refugees entering the country from Serbia.
More than 17,000 Middle Eastern migrants have entered Croatia since Wednesday and found themselves stopped at Hungary's closed borders, with many of them currently camping alongside highways, according to The New York Times.
"It was crowded, there was no food, no transport and nowhere to go," said Ibrahim Yusuf, 25, who was a construction worker before he left Baghdad.
The migrants are attempting to reach Germany and Sweden, which are currently accepting large numbers of immigrants. However, it's a long journey from Serbia, where the migrants crossed the border to reach Croatia.
The country can no longer handle the waves of immigrants. "Don't come here anymore. This is not the road to Europe," Croatia's Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said.
Croatia previously allowed migrants to pass through the country, but they have been overwhelmed with the closure of the Hungarian border earlier this week, The Los Angeles Times reported. Almost 400,000 immigrants have come from the MIddle East into the European Union in 2015 already, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan.
"We cannot register and accommodate these people any longer...They will get food, water and medical help, and then they can move on," Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A security officer says that Hungary plans to put 1,800 military personnel and 400 police officers at their border with Croatia by the end of the week.
