According to economist Ž.Mauricas, the most dangerous thing for Lithuania would be to rely on the bureaucrats of the European Union, who, instead of solving the crisis of illegal migration, on the contrary, encourage it.

 "First, by tolerating illegal migration, they support criminal groups involved in smuggling illegal migrants and supporting regimes in third countries (for example, by admitting illegal migrants, Lithuania indirectly supports the Belarusian regime and Belavia, which flies these migrants), and they cannot to stop after they taste the money. 

Secondly, by tolerating illegal migration, EU bureaucrats are effectively putting EU migration policy in the hands of neighboring, often authoritarian, states. For example, currently it is not Lithuania but the Belarusian regime that decides how many, when and which people will immigrate to Lithuania. 

Thirdly, by tolerating illegal migration, they encourage dangerous journeys by illegal migrants to the EU, which often result in death, such as drowning at sea, or human trafficking - a significant proportion of illegal migrants become victims of prostitution, trafficking and similar victims, or into the criminal world such as drugs transportation. 

Fourth, by tolerating illegal migration, EU bureaucrats increase the shadow economy, crime and discrimination against people within the EU, as only about a third of illegal migrants who are denied refugee status are deported, mostly voluntarily because deportation is a particularly complex and expensive procedure. As a result, hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants are left in the EU without any documents, a source of income and opportunities to study, some of whom work illegally in appalling conditions. 

Fifth, by tolerating illegal migration, EU bureaucrats encourage corruption, as feeding, housing, counseling and the like to illegal migrants is a good source of income for corrupt local bureaucrats, such as the infamous migrant camps in Greece. Thus, local bureaucrats also no longer have incentives to stop illegal migration, but, on the contrary, have incentives to continue it. Otherwise, they would lose their source of income,  according to Ž. Mauricas."