Government: EU wants to settle illegal migrants
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The European Union’s draft crisis regulation adopted earlier this week is not about protecting the borders, but about the further settlement of illegal migrants, state secretary of the ministry of interior Bence Rétvári told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió on Sunday.
While the proposal discussed at the meeting of EU interior ministers is formally called crisis regulation, Rétvári said, it is actually another “migrant magnet” that was pushed through in Brussels. He said the migration pact was passed by the Council of the European Union early in the summer, bypassing qualified decision-making, without striving for consensus, and until now, only one part was missing, the so-called crisis regulation.
Explaining the content of the supplementary decision, Rétvári said that in the event that tens of thousands of migrants suddenly appear somewhere, Brussels will have the right to decide how many migrants should be taken by member states from the country in crisis. This is an extraordinary mandatory quota, made on the basis of an ad hoc decision, and it does not contain any guarantees, the concept of the crisis situation is not defined, nor is the proportion in which the migrants should be distributed, he said. He also noted that the obligation cannot be converted into a fine, the designated countries would have to take over these migrants on a mandatory basis.
The E.U. needs to deport all illegal migrants immediately, even just to offshore processing centers, and it needs to adopt the policy of summarily turning back all immigrants who turn up at its borders without a passport and visa. Only then can its pronouncements about wanting to solve this enormous problem be taking the least bit seriously. Until then, and especially while it continues to punish the likes of Hungary who are trying to solve the issue unilaterally, it will be clear that far from wanting to curb illegal immigration, the E.U. is both encouraging and facilitating it. I do not want Budapest to turn into Paris, London, Berlin or even Marseilles, Hamburg, Gothenburg, Munich, etc.
Hungary should inform EU that only refugees that applied from Consulates will be considered. No one that does not meet the UN definition of a refugee will be admitted. All illegal migrants will be flown back to their home countries.