"We will do everything to deport them from Latvia," Janis Adamsons said Sunday as the group was preparing for a fifth night confined to two railway coaches in the border town of Karsava.
The Latvian government has admitted it has no legal grounds to deport the group to the countries it says they came from -- Belarus and Russia. Russia refuses to take them and the UN body in charge of refugees has called on Latvia to instead tackle the migrants' plight.
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