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US ambassador: Hungary has right to protect its borders
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Budapest, December 5 (MTI) – The United States understands that as a sovereign nation, Hungary has the right to protect its borders, US Ambassador Colleen Bell said in an interview to public news channel M1 broadcast on Saturday.
The ambassador said that since the migrant crisis is a global one, the US is not in a position to prescribe a solution for it.
“The migration crisis is a global crisis. It’s particularly challenging here in Europe,” the ambassador said. She said the US knows that Hungary is among the countries that have been most challenged by the crisis, as it lies on the periphery of the Schengen zone.
“Processing all of these individuals coming through, in compliance with the Dublin Agreement, was extremely difficult for Hungary and we understand that,” she added.
Bell said the US does not intend to criticise Hungary’s choices in trying to manage the migrant crisis, but it does support the European Union’s efforts to come up with a “comprehensive and unified approach to this crisis”. She added that the US reminds every country of the importance of ensuring the safety of refugees and treating them humanely and with dignity.
“Hungary is not being singled out with that message,” Bell said, adding that it is important to make sure that every country understands that many refugees are fleeing violent extremism. “They are not terrorists. They are fleeing very complicated and difficult circumstances.”
Bell said that as one of the world’s most accepting countries, the US took in refugees from over 70 countries last year alone. This is why, she said, the US understands “the importance of screening individuals and processing for safety and security”.
On the topic of inspecting the Thunder Cloud 2015 joint exercise at the Papa military air base, in western Hungary, Bell noted that over the last year there had been a “major uptick in exercises as a result of Operation Atlantic Resolve”, one of the advances that came out of last year’s NATO summit in Wales. She said joint military exercises will continue so NATO can improve inner operability with its allies.
Mr Bell must understand that Hungary does not want to be over run with immigrants who do not have the same culture and ideals held by Europeans and in many evidential cases just do not mix with other peoples of a different background and different religion (I suggest he visits Luton in the UK for this evidence).
I think it is quite clear that the present leadership of the EU-the Commissioners neither have either the will nor the intellect to resolve this serious immigration crisis.
Further my understanding is that only some 23% of immigrants are truly bona fide the majority being economic migrants. It is also self evident that the incomers have not been properly processed and it is uncertain as to who these people actually are many having entered with false passports and documents.
As we have seen from France this had lead to members of Isis roaming Europe in vehicles laden with guns without being checked and arrested.