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Hungary Ratchets Migrant Control by Putting Military at Border
Hungary’s adopting a no-nonsense approach to migrant control, setting up a small military base along its southern border to keep out non-citizens.
The message to migrants is clear: Turn around. Go home.
The military base comes on the heels of the country’s construction of a second border fence.
From the Daily Caller:
“The soldiers work with designated “border hunters” to prevent migrants from getting across the fence erected along the border to Serbia. The base will significantly cut down the commute for soldiers on patrol.
“‘The defense of the border … so hundreds of thousands won’t march across the country, deserves total respect,’ Hungarian Defense Minister Istvan Simicsko said at the opening of the base, according to The Associated Press. ‘Our most important common interest is the protection of the Hungarian citizens, our family members and civilians.’
“Hungary recently announced the construction of a second border fence. The national parliament also approved legislation to indefinitely detain asylum seekers in containers along the border.”
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has been vocal, to put it mildly, about the need to manage migrant crossings. As Christine Williams of Jihad Watch notes:
“Orban has been strikingly vocal about how Europe has failed to manage the migrant crisis, noting how the Muslim migrants have brought Europe only crime, chaos, jihad attacks and threats, and staggering multi-billion dollar costs to taxpayers. Orban has recommended: helping Christians before Muslim migrants and sinking empty migrant ships to ‘save the Mediterranean.’ He has referred to asylum seekers as ‘a poison.’ Orban has also stated that ‘those arriving have been raised in another religion and represent a radically different culture,’ and has called Europe’s response to the migrant chaos ‘madness.’”
Orban said, upon the swearing-in of border guards on March 7: The “migration flow” has slowed, but the crisis is far from ended.
Source: http://pamelageller.com/2017/03/hungary-ratchets-migrant-control-putting-military-border.html/
