Hungary rejects UNHCR comment on new migrant legislation
Budapest, March 7 (MTI) – As Hungary’s government gives priority to the interests and security of Hungarian citizens, no illegal migrants will be let into the country without a due assessment of their application for asylum, foreign affairs spokesman Tamás Menczer told MTI on Tuesday.
The statement came in response to United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesperson Cecile Pouilly’s assertion that Hungarian legislation tramples on European Union laws and an international law barring authorities from mass detention of asylum seekers.
“The UN High Commissioner’s Office for Refugees joined liberal politicians and foreign-funded NGOs in failing to understand that law applies to everyone”, Menczer said, adding that UNHCR “is promoting anarchy and chaos” against security and the rule of law.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Hungarian parliament accepted legislation tightening asylum regulations and barring asylum seekers of 14 years of age and above from leaving the transit zones on the Serbian border.
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In the 1960’s through the 1980’s Hungarians fleeing from brutal repression under Soviet domination were not turned away, abused, harassed, or mistreated when they crossed the border to escape from the daily horrors they faced for many years. When Hungarians made it over the border they were given immediate refuge, comfort, housing, legal status, employment, and a better life, without hesitation. The mistreatment, abuse, and harassment of Syrian refugees and others by Hungary, its racist President, its government, its police, and military is especially repulsive and repugnant in light of the generous humanity always offered to Hungarians when they were on the run from terror. Hungary has displayed utter contempt and inhumanity for the extremely desperate families who lost so much already by escaping from extreme carnage and terror in Syria. Hungary has magnified the suffering of refugees ten-fold by subjecting them to rejection, abuse, violence, and leaving them exposed to the weather to perish because they are Muslim, for which Hungary displays racism and prejudice. When Hungarians were desperate for freedom from persecution they were never treated like scum, the way Hungary now abuses Syrian refugees, contrary to international law. Shame on Hungary!
@John-Paul
Knowing nothing at all about Hungary’s, nor Hungarians’ history. You many would find are the most ignorant, uninformed, and least educated in Central European history and World politics. You should be the last of the bleeding heart NGO backed liberals giving opinions and advice on what is going on in the world. Why don’t you move to Syria and help the rest of the central and eastern Europeans there giving medical and other forms of aid. Instead of sitting in front of your TV in your couch, watching CNN.
@John-Paul O’Driscoll Another historically illiterate peasant, commenting on something he has absolutely no clue about. And, which nations are you referring to when you claim they welcomed Hungarians when they fled from terror? But before you answer that, try to find out who put Hungarians in that position in the first instance. And where was the world’s generosity during the 1956 revolution (the direct result of the ‘west’ handing Hungary over on a silver platter as a sacrificial lamb)? Britain was too busy with their flower show, and the US couldn’t care less. Where were these welcoming parades and committees you speak of then? And those are just two microscopic reflections of the bloody history Hungary has been forced to endure thanks to the powers that were, but are now falling apart. Please don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house. You’re a sanctimonious, self-righteous, bigoted, hypocrite.
@John-Paul O’Driscoll Another historically illiterate peasant, commenting on something he has absolutely no clue about. And, which nations are you referring to when you claim they welcomed Hungarians when they fled from terror? But before you answer that, try to find out who put Hungarians in that position in the first instance. And where was the world’s generosity during the 1956 revolution (the direct result of the ‘west’ handing Hungary over on a silver platter as a sacrificial lamb)? Britain was too busy with their flower show, and the US couldn’t care less. Where were these welcoming parades and committees you speak of then? And those are just two microscopic reflections of the bloody history Hungary has been forced to endure thanks to the powers that were, but are now falling apart. Please don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house. You’re a sanctimonious, self-righteous, bigoted, hypocrite.