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The Latest: Greece: Golden Dawn rally against transit camp

Refugees and migrants sit outside a terminal building, after their arrival from the Greek eastern islands, at the Athens' port of Piraeus on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. An estimated 850,000 migrants arrived in Greece in 2015, overwhelming the coast guard and reception facilities. Aid groups say cash-strapped Greece has shelter for only about 10,000 people, just over 1 percent of those who have entered. Most travel on via land across the Balkans and into the EU's heartland of Germany and beyond. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Refugees and migrants sit outside a terminal building, after their arrival from the Greek eastern islands, at the Athens' port of Piraeus on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. An estimated 850,000 migrants arrived in Greece in 2015, overwhelming the coast guard and reception facilities. Aid groups say cash-strapped Greece has shelter for only about 10,000 people, just over 1 percent of those who have entered. Most travel on via land across the Balkans and into the EU's heartland of Germany and beyond. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Refugees and migrants sit outside a terminal building, after their arrival from the Greek eastern islands, at the Athens' port of Piraeus on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. An estimated 850,000 migrants arrived in Greece in 2015, overwhelming the coast guard and reception facilities. Aid groups say cash-strapped Greece has shelter for only about 10,000 people, just over 1 percent of those who have entered. Most travel on via land across the Balkans and into the EU's heartland of Germany and beyond. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – The Latest on the influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):

11:55 a.m.

Dozens of Greek riot police have been deployed to a demonstration organized by the extreme right Golden Dawn party against plans to build a new transit camp for refugees and migrants near Athens.

Four of the party’s 18 lawmakers were present at the rally Monday outside the port of Perama, about 15 kilometers (9.5 miles) west of Athens, where the government is planning to build the camp with the help of the armed forces.

About 150 people staged a counter-demonstration near the site.