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.”
“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.”
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”.
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.
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.”
