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Hungary shuts EU border, taking migrant crisis into its own hands
Ruetes ^ | 9-15-2015 | Krisztina Than and Ivana Sekularac

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; crisis; czechrepublic; europeanunion; france; germany; greece; hungary; islam; nato; russia; serbia; slovakia; syriza; uk; unitedkingdom; worldwarthree
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The Shengen Agreement allowing free movement within the Eurozone is all but dead now.

Per Twitter, Hungary just declared a national emergency, and ordered 9,000 Army troops to deploy to the border areas, immediately.

1 posted on 09/15/2015 9:59:36 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Hungary can shut their border. But we can’t.


2 posted on 09/15/2015 10:02:24 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: tcrlaf

Good.

I heard Hungary is a mostly Christian nation. Love that.


3 posted on 09/15/2015 10:03:03 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: tcrlaf

“Slovakia said they would bring the “end of the EU”.

Best of all possible worlds right there.


4 posted on 09/15/2015 10:03:27 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: tcrlaf
Interesting that Reuters immediately identified Hungary's government as “right-wing”.

Funny how I've never seen anything reported along the lines of: France's left-wing government shocked by muslim shootings.

5 posted on 09/15/2015 10:04:59 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: DannyTN

I”n 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.”

A. The fence during the Cold War was meant to keep people IN.

B. Notice how quick they built this fence thats supposed to be so impossible for us....


6 posted on 09/15/2015 10:05:01 AM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: tcrlaf

Whaaaaa....?
No New World order without borders?

No ShariaWorld?

Bravo Slovaks! Be boss in your own country!

Maybe Americans will learn???


7 posted on 09/15/2015 10:05:01 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: tcrlaf

Round them up Hungary. Every man woman and child.

Charter a rusty old tramp steamer and put them ashore on the coast of Turkey


8 posted on 09/15/2015 10:05:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tcrlaf

Why wouldn’t Hungary `take this crisis into its own hands’.
That’s what a sovereign nation does.
It’s what this country used to do—before New World Order Republicans like Bush and their Demo allies.
Even Dingy Harry Reid once said “no sane country” would put up with the concept of anchor babies, before Uniparty got his mind right.


9 posted on 09/15/2015 10:05:17 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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“Hungary’s right-wing government “

Notice the media NEVER says something like: Germany’s left-wing government just invited a horde of Muslims in.


10 posted on 09/15/2015 10:06:38 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: tcrlaf

They will be called racist for this. But when subhuman savages are throwing homosexuals off buildings in Berlin, the Hungarians will have the last laugh.


11 posted on 09/15/2015 10:06:51 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Leo Carpathian

Not Slovaks. Madyars....


12 posted on 09/15/2015 10:07:08 AM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: tcrlaf

Am I a bad person for feeling a rush of schadenfreud?


13 posted on 09/15/2015 10:07:28 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: tcrlaf

Why don’t they just send them to Greece?


14 posted on 09/15/2015 10:08:18 AM PDT by fruser1
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The royals in Brussels need a cart ride to Madame guillotine!


15 posted on 09/15/2015 10:08:19 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Norm Lenhart; Army Air Corps

Naturally it is the Eastern European countries doing this.

They have only had their freedom for barely a generation and they love their liberty and want to keep it.

They remember and have experienced true tyranny.

Not so in The West.


16 posted on 09/15/2015 10:08:31 AM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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To: fruser1

They belong in Turkey.


17 posted on 09/15/2015 10:08:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: tcrlaf

“Hungary’s right-wing government”

Stopped taking this rooters hit piece seriously right there.

The gang from Brussels is as bad if not worse than the free traitor open borders oligarchy in the US.

To these looters, patiotism to one’s country is considered to be heresy.


18 posted on 09/15/2015 10:10:05 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Kozak

Magyars


19 posted on 09/15/2015 10:11:00 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: tcrlaf

How are the Mohammedans getting to Hungary in the first place? Hungary is landlocked.


20 posted on 09/15/2015 10:11:04 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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