Hungary PM: Wants Army to Block Immigration into Europe

[Melech 9,900]

"The European Union should protect its borders against immigration using military force because it doesn’t need new migrants, Hungary’s prime minister said the day after EU leaders agreed to increase funding to keep migrants from dying while trying to cross the Mediterranean.

The leaders of the 28-nation EU agreed in Brussels on Thursday to triple funding for patrols in the Mediterranean after hundreds of people drowned in one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks on the Mediterranean in recent days.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged even more action.

“Europe’s borders must be protected. We cannot be like a piece of cheese with holes in it so that they [immigrants] can be crossing in and out. Serious police and military steps must be taken and also steps that they would remain at home,” Mr. Orban said in an interview on state radio on Friday.

An EU summit planned for July to discuss migration matters should tackle basic issues such as whether Europe needs immigrants at all, he said.

“In my opinion, it doesn’t. But there are other [EU] countries that are saying it does,” Mr. Orban said.

Hungary’s governing Fidesz party said in February it wants to “close the country’s borders” to economic immigrants from outside the EU because of a spike in their number.

The number of people seeking asylum in Hungary neared 40,000 in the first four months of this year, about the same figure as in the whole of last year, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said on Friday. That compares to Hungary’s total population of a little below 10 million.

Countries in the bloc which see immigration as necessary believe they can’t reverse unfavorable population trends with social policy, which is why they want to import labor under regulated conditions, Mr. Orban said. He also said that Europe’s Roma population, estimated at up to 12 million, could be tapped as additional labor force.

Hungary is worried that the migrants, most of whom enter Hungary en route to the more developed countries of Western Europe, will choose to stay in the country.

Illegal immigration is “not a major issue” as long as migrants come here in transition, “but we shouldn’t suppose that the Germans and the Austrians will allow without end that these illegal immigrants may enter [their borders] freely, taking jobs before the [local] people who are already struggling with unemployment, exploit the social support systems and undermine public safety since they arrive without control,” Mr. Orban said.

“The German and Austrian societies are already seething over this issue and new regulations are underway that won’t allow them to move on. Then we will be stuck with them,” he added.

The Hungarian government will start to send out some eight million letters to Hungarians May 1 to seek their opinion about illegal immigration, Mr. Kovacs said Friday.

Questions the government will pose to the voting-age population include whether illegal immigrants should be taken into custody and deported as well as required to work during their stay to cover the expenses they incur for the state.

Those suggested measures would go against the EU regulations in force at present. But the current EU rules on immigrants are “silly, they hamstring the member states, posing an obstacle rather than providing support,” Mr. Orban said.

It would be better if the member states could decide themselves how they want to curb the waves of illegal immigration, he added.

“If we receive that opportunity, we shall handle our immigration issues ourselves,” Mr. Orban said."

http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2015/04/24/hungarys-orban-wants-army-to-block-immigration-into-europe/

 

Thoughts?

 

I personally think Europe should take  more 

[crisTEAne 21,059]

orban is a complete asshole. currently, he's ****ing the whole academic and higher education system up.  

anyways, the EU should ignore him... like completely.

[Zsolti 2,688]

Why even bother coming to EU

[Melech 9,900]

Why even bother coming to EU

​Because Europe is the most developed area in the world? 

[darkchylde 14,857]

​Because Europe is the most developed area in the world? 

​Sure, Jan.

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

China is the most developed area in the world, you guys.

 

[Mitch XCX 1,059]

i kind of agree that we should stop the amount of immigration 

[Luc 4,776]

Imo:

- More legal ways for migrabts to come to Europe

- More aid for Lebanon, Jordan and Libya, and help to get a more stable democracy.

- Border control by the whole EU, more ships to avoid humanitarian disasters.

- Asylum seekers distributed over the whole EU.

there's probably countless more measures that need to be taken. All parts of the problem need to be fixed..

 

I know a Palestinian (grandparents fled from Palestine to Syria in the 60's, now from Syria to the Netherlands. Father was a lawyer.) and an Iraqese (Christians, fled for IS) family. They're extremely generous and nice families. The situation in Syria and countries bordering Syria is unsustainable. There are 400.000 kids in Lebanon who don't have education, because there's not enough schools and teachers. 

 

And I take everything the Hungarian PM/president says with a grain of salt. Far right, pro-Russian, less freexom of press and democracy. Enough said.