Slovenia’s government on Tuesday decided to draft legislation that would allow it to use the army to help cope with the migrant influx after it exhausted its capacity to deal with the thousands of people arriving daily.

It first mentioned the possibility of using the military on Saturday but said at the time there was no immediate need for it. Three days later, it was caught between masses arriving from the south and limits to how many migrants its northern neighbor Austria is willing to take.

“The arrival of migrants in the past three days exceeded all manageable capabilities prepared by the Republic of Slovenia,” the government said. “Just yesterday close to 8,000 people came to Slovenia.”

It said Austria accepted only 2,000 while pressure continued from Croatia. Slovenia, caught in the middle, said 6,000 people, mostly women and children, remained on its territory on Monday.

The Slovenian government said it wants to make sure the migrants’ stay is orderly, with “reasonable accommodation.” It said it would urgently look to provide additional facilities and beds.

On Monday, the small Alpine country refused entry to a group of 1,800 people who had hoped to enter from Croatia. It said it only has the ability to handle about 6,000 people for a few days.

The government in Ljubljana said on Tuesday it is the smallest country on the Balkan route for migrants, mostly from the Middle East, who are trying to reach Europe’s affluent north. It said the burden of handling migrants was overwhelming for the country of just two million people, a task larger states have had difficulty managing.

Slovenia has been under pressure since Hungary last week closed its border to migrants arriving previously from Croatia and reinforced its frontier with the country with razor-wire fence, pushing migrants to find alternative routes north.