Hungary’s Border Fence Fails to Stop Refugees
Earlier today, Kit Johnson blogged about the “shocking” magnitude of the EU migrant crisis. The Wall Street Journal video story above relays the latest about refugees seeking to enter the European Union through Hungary.
As the Washington Post explains, thousands of refugees, most fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have been heading north through the Balkans in recent days,
“confronting a Europe woefully unprepared to deal with them at every step. Most endured a perilous crossing to Greece aboard rafts and boats, some barely fit to sail. They traversed Greece, a nation paralyzed by economic crisis and too poor to handle a flow of people that in July hit a record high. At the border with Macedonia late last week, they trudged through a wall of riot police, who fought them back with tear gas before relenting. Now, the asylum-seekers, thousands a day, are racing into Hungary, which is rushing to complete a barbed-wire border fence by the end of the month to force them to seek other routes.”
It has been reported that Hungary is near completion of building a six-foot razor wire fence blocking the full length of its 110-mile border with Serbia, the effective entry point to the Schengen Area of free movement in Europe.
KJ