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‘They don’t even try’: Hungary’s new border fence called ‘spectacular success’
World Tribune ^ | May 2, 2017 | World Tribune Staff

Posted on 07/27/2017 1:44:48 AM PDT by vannrox

Skeptics who believe a border wall will not stop illegals from entering the United States may want to look at what’s happening in Hungary.

On the day its border fence was completed, the influx of illegals entering Hungary went down from 6,353 one day to 870 the next. For the remainder of that month, illegal border crossings were steadily below 40 per day, officials said.

Border patrols prevent dozens of crossings every day and catch migrants who make it into Hungary within the first few miles of the border, according to authorities. /Reuters

“They don’t even try,” a local border guard told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We haven’t had a Syrian in six months.”

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s pledge to stop illegals from flowing into the country appears to be a spectacular success.

Hungary’s 96-mile long, 14-foot tall double-line fence includes several layers of razor-wire capable of delivering electric shocks. The barrier features cameras, heat sensors and loudspeakers ready to tell migrants they’re about to break Hungarian law if they as much as touch the fence, the April 30 Daily Caller report said.

Nearly every police officer in Hungary is part of a rotation to monitor the border fence at all times. Temporary military bases house the police while they do their rotation.

Additionally, Hungary will train and pay more than 1,000 volunteers to deploy as “border hunters”.

Illegals who are caught are arrested and dropped off on the Serbian side of the fence. They don’t get a chance to apply for asylum unless they do so at a “transit zone” where they are held in housing containers while their cases get processed, the Daily Caller report said.

In September 2015, thousands of migrants streamed across the border every day as they made their way north to Austria, Germany and Scandinavia.

“It was an invasion,” Laszlo Toroczkai, the mayor of Asotthalom, told the Daily Caller. “Illegal immigration is a crime in a normal country. It’s not a normal thing to break into a country.”

“By the mid-year it was well beyond 100,000 people who came across,” said Zoltan Kovacs, a spokesman for the Hungarian government. “You should at least have the ability to handle what’s going on.”

Kovacs added: “You might not like it, it’s not a nice thing, but … the only way to stop illegal border crossings is [to] first build a fence, man it, equip it, and also, in parallel, build up your capabilities in terms of legal confines, legal circumstances to be able to handle what is coming.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; hungary; illegal; trump; wall
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1 posted on 07/27/2017 1:44:48 AM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

“Illegal immigration is a crime in a normal country.” Says it all.


2 posted on 07/27/2017 2:01:53 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: vannrox

There was a time when migrants entering Europe would go well out of their way to avoid Hungary.


3 posted on 07/27/2017 2:08:46 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: gattaca

America is becoming a lawless country.


4 posted on 07/27/2017 2:10:27 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: vannrox

Eastern European nations by & large are not self-loathing betas like most of the Western nations currently are.


5 posted on 07/27/2017 2:16:18 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
“It was an invasion,” Laszlo Toroczkai, the mayor of Asotthalom, told the Daily Caller. “Illegal immigration is a crime in a normal country. It’s not a normal thing to break into a country.”
6 posted on 07/27/2017 2:21:16 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: vannrox

How appropriate for this to take place in modern day Adolf’s home country, eh?


7 posted on 07/27/2017 2:29:44 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Manning the US border doesn’t require a massive number of new border agents. Reposition some regular force units near the border and make border patrol part of their training and responsibility. Maintaining a perimeter is a vital defensive skill as we’ve seen in Iraq and Afghanistan (and sadly we’ve seen the tragic consequences of infiltrations into the “green zones”), so the training won’t be wasted.


8 posted on 07/27/2017 2:34:24 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: vannrox

No reporting of this spectacular success story by MSM. Success based on common sense.


9 posted on 07/27/2017 2:44:07 AM PDT by iontheball
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Somali invader trapped atop a fence in Spain.

10 posted on 07/27/2017 2:59:33 AM PDT by Liz ( If ignorance is bliss, why is Maxine Waters so angry all the time?)
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To: vannrox

South Korea has fences topped with razor wire all along its northern border, as well as along any rivers near the border. Guard posts and lights are placed at intervals. In addition, the supporting columns of freeway bridges over the rivers are wrapped with razor wire to prevent anyone from climbing up and gaining access to the roadways. Those South Koreans are serious about keeping the North Koreans out. North Koreans who want to defect must escape through China.

Fences work.


11 posted on 07/27/2017 3:12:41 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: FES0844

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!!


12 posted on 07/27/2017 3:18:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: vannrox
“We haven’t had a Syrian in six months.”

Sounds like complete remission.

13 posted on 07/27/2017 3:30:48 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: littleharbour
Tiny little Belize which is bordered by Mexico and Guatemala, two of America's largest sources of illegal immigrants, has little problem with invaders because they enforce their laws as well.
14 posted on 07/27/2017 3:32:46 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: FES0844
"When laws are not enforced there is no law." a paraphrase from Daniel Webster.

Laws within the United States of America are selectively enforced today and have been for a very long time.

15 posted on 07/27/2017 3:46:43 AM PDT by jamaksin
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To: Liz

I believe Spain holds them in the North African cities they still hold (like Ceuta); they’ve stormed the fences there, but getting through still leaves them on the south side of the Med...


16 posted on 07/27/2017 4:16:40 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: vannrox
I still grit my teeth when I think of that useless slug in a bad rug Trent Lott telling a story about an imaginary billy goat he claimed to have owned. He said, roughly, no matter how good that fence was, it didn't stop Billy. The story was intended to illustrate why building a wall with Mexico wouldn't work.

Just like Al Gore's fantasy tale about handling tobacco, that story made scream at my TV set. ANY animal (or man) can be stopped with a good fence. And I'd almost bet my house that Trent Lott never owned a goat.

17 posted on 07/27/2017 4:22:11 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Liz
they should leave it there to rot as a warning to others
18 posted on 07/27/2017 4:29:37 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: vannrox

Bravo for them and PM Orban for standing up to the suicidal EU.


19 posted on 07/27/2017 4:41:19 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Chode

100%


20 posted on 07/27/2017 4:42:52 AM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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