Migrants deported from Germany under controversial deal
GREECE-- For the first time since the flood of refugees overwhelmed Europe, the flow was reversed.
More than 200 migrants were sent home on Monday -- with more to follow -- under a deal between the European Union and Turkey.
The migrants were bused into Lesvos port before dawn and behind lines of riot police.
Each person being sent back had a chaperone -- and CBS News captured proof that their wrists were bound while on board the buses.
The Greek authorities said none of the migrants had applied for asylum in Europe.
But thousands of other people in Greece, who are at risk of deportation, have fled war in Syria and Iraq and then risked their lives to cross from Turkey to Greece in rickety boats and inflatable rafts.
Greece's refugee camps have now become detention centers.
Fenced in behind razor wire, CBS News met Abdulrahman Balash, who told CBS News he came from Damascus in Syria -- and wants to go to Germany or Sweden, where it's safe.
But the Greek police quickly intervened and then ended CBS News' interview.
Some migrants haven't been able to contain their frustration in recent days, several hundred people even managed to break out of a detention center on the island of Chios in Greece.
Boris Cheshirkov is a spokesman for the United Nations Refugee Agency -- and fears that Europe's determination to stop the flow of people arriving on its shores could mean some refugees aren't given the protection they deserve.
"They have to be given an individual process, so they can explain why they have to stay, because they fear for their lives," he said.
The question now is whether locking migrants up, and deporting some of them actually stops others from coming. There's been a drop in the numbers in the last few days, but this morning, the Greek government said more than 300 people arrived in the previous 24 hours.
