There's also a second route up thru Italy, used by North Africans.
Posted on 09/15/2015 9:59:36 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Hungary's right-wing government shut the main land route for migrants into the EU on Tuesday, taking matters into its own hands to halt Europe's influx of refugees.
An emergency effort led by Germany to force European Union member states to accept mandatory quotas of refugees collapsed in discord.
Berlin called for EU financial penalties against countries that refused to accommodate their share of migrants. A Czech official said such threats were empty but nonetheless "damaging". Slovakia said they would bring the "end of the EU".
Under new rules that took effect from midnight, Hungary said anyone seeking asylum at its border with Serbia, the EU's external frontier, would automatically be turned back, and anyone trying to sneak through would face jail.
In scenes with echoes of the Cold War, families with small children sat in fields beneath the former communist country's new 3.5-metre (10 foot) high fence, which runs almost the length of the border, topped with razor wire.
“Strike. No food. No water. Open this border,” a woman had written on a child’s dress that she held above her head.
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Liberal claptrap meant pull at the heart and equate Hungary with Hitler. Hungary has a history of being invaded by muslims and refuses to allow it again and they have a history of the land being stripped bare by the Russians(Bolshevik, former communist country, again by invasion) leaving families with small children to face starvation. I know my grandparents and parents were there for the aftermath of WWII!
The Eastern European countries also haven’t been wimp-ified to the same degree the Western European countries have.
This must be driving the EU bleeding-hearts insane!
About time someone had a sense of urgency...
I can understand that. After all, they lived through the real horrors from 1945 to 1989 of what Communism is really like and not the heaven on earth the talking classes like to be arrogant about.
They should all go to Saudi Arabia.
Or Kuwait, they owe us.
I’d drop them off along the coast of Saudi Arabia.
They built a fence in few weeks..but us, “impossible to build”. What a joke..
I think they belong in Saudi Arabia; ship them all there. They can take the place of slaves from India and Pakistan. The Saudi’s sure seem to have more than enough money to care for them all.
And those Magyars are mad -- thus their name change.
First of long line of Refugees told to go back to Serbia...
Refugees confronted by miles of fencing
First of long line of Refugees told to go back to Serbia...
Refugees confronted by miles of fencing
Those that th3e EU will reject will end up in the US. Trump was right when he called our country “the world’s dumping ground”.
Hungary has an old history of invasions by the, then, Ottoman Empire. They remember.
Look at all of those poor people with their cell phones.
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