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Hungary: Muslim migrants dig under border fence and enter the country through hand-dug tunnels

Aug 21, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Prior to Hungary’s decision to build a Southern border barrier fence, “more than 400,000 migrants from Muslim-majority nations had surged from Serbia and Croatia over Hungary’s border along the so-called Balkan route, which started in Greece. Most had no intention of staying in Hungary; they were bound for the more economically generous environs of Germany, France, and the Netherlands.”

These economic migrants were determined, and so began digging tunnels right after Hungary finished building its “barbed-wire-rimmed steel fence barrier along its southern border in 2015 to stop mass-migration from the Middle East.”

“Two hand-dug tunnels full of migrants” were discovered. “Both burrowed about 20 feet under the fence.”

Now they’re back with a vengeance:

Migrants trying to reach high-welfare northern European nations being frustrated by Hungary’s southern border fence are digging tunnels in a bid to cross undetected, a new tactic that has otherwise been seen on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Only five months ago, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán renewed his vow to protect Europe from renewed mass Muslim migration.

“The Hungarian authorities make every effort around the clock to detect and to apprehend illegal migrants in the vicinity of the border.” He added that the government was alert to the risk of migrants potentially spreading coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the UK under Boris Johnson has been supine in the face of a migrant “invasion.”

“Hungary Working Around the Clock to Stop ‘Mexican’ Style Illegal Migrant Tunnels Under Border Fence,” by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart, August 19, 2020:

Migrants trying to reach high-welfare northern European nations being frustrated by Hungary’s southern border fence are digging tunnels in a bid to cross undetected, a new tactic that has otherwise been seen on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The emerging phenomenon comes five years after the first peak of the Europe Migrant Crisis, when Hungary bucked the continent-wide trend of open borders by declaring itself closed to illegals. The nation sat on the most direct path into Europe from the Balkan route, and the creation of a fence directed the migratory stream onto a longer way around its territory. But as migration starts to rise again after a coronavirus-forced lull, illegals are on the move. They are not just going around Hungary’s border — they are attempting to go underneath it, with authorities discovering several tunnels.

When Hungary’s southern border fence was first completed in 2015, it was hailed for having reduced illegal crossings to pre-migrant crisis levels. This was no mean feat — in the space of less than one month, the number of illegals fell from up to 10,000 a day to just a dozen a day.

But the migrants travelling to Europe’s high-welfare, lax-border control states in the north remain determined and — perhaps even more importantly — so do the people smugglers, who make fortunes trading in human misery. Using tactics best known on the U.S.-Mexico border, or at Israel’s border, migrants are now attempting to tunnel under Hungary’s frontier and avoid the attention of police.

Several such tunnels have now been found this year, with the frequency of discoveries rising with time. Earlier this month it was revealed in Budapest freesheet Pesti Hirlap that some 18,000 illegals had tried to cross the Hungarian frontier this year so far. Hungarian authorities had arrested over 200 traffickers — the largest number since 2015, the year the fence was built.

Last week, another one of these tunnels was discovered….

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  1. Steve says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 11:05 am

    It is real easy since Hungary isn’t the U.S. or Europe. Mortar, Shell, drop bombs so the concussion collapses the tunnels. Plant charges if necessary.

    • maria says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 11:16 am

      Yes, you are quite right

    • Ecosse1314 says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 11:32 am

      Agreed but Hungary has always been in Europe

    • Templer says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 12:41 pm

      Agree but hugrey is in the Eu it even has the euro come on late do your resurch

      • European pagan says

        Aug 21, 2020 at 2:48 pm

        Hungary doesn’t have €, they have Forint.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 21, 2020 at 6:37 pm

        Templer is right–Hungary joined the European Union in 2004. But yes–they use the Forint, not the Euro.

    • curious says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 9:22 pm

      Other legitimate responses would include flooding the tunnels at any moment, or leaving the tunnels intact and stationing snipers to dispatch any foreign invaders who emerge.

  2. Ray Jarman says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 11:22 am

    God bless the Hungarians for protecting itself and Europe from these migrant slugs. Not only would I fill in the tunnels but I would first fill them with something extremely toxic but not deadly as a show of discontent. If these slugs were true refugees, they would stop at the official border crossings and ask permission and explain their plights. If they have the funds to pay a smuggler, they cannot in good conscience (I understand they do not have one) be expected to be considered good prospects that would fully integrate into their would be new societies.

    • Wellington says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 4:48 pm

      +1

  3. Nicu says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 11:32 am

    Digging holes like rats – fits ! not bad for ” starving children “

    • Keith O says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 4:15 pm

      We used to use LPG gas and acetylene gas pumped into rat holes to fix the problem.
      One spark and problem be gone.
      Wonder if that would work with these rats?

  4. tedh754 says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 11:45 am

    It is amazing how hard some will work in order to get to the land of free stuff!

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 1:28 pm

      They like the European women too.

  5. Keith O says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    Any tunnels that are discovered should simply have cement pumped into them.
    Signs put up along the border telling the invaders that this will be done so they have no excuses.
    Once the tunnel is on your side of a border you can do with it what you want. So yeah, fill them with cement.

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    Hungary: Muslim migrants dig under border fence and enter the country through hand-dug tunnels
    …………….

    More proof that this is an invading force.

    • Wellington says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 4:58 pm

      Absolutely, gravenimage. An invading force indeed and still the vast majority of Western elites remain clueless—or even worse, complicit.

      Again is demonstrated so clearly that Islam is not the main problem. It is the secondary problem.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 21, 2020 at 6:39 pm

        +1

        • Ray Jarman says

          Aug 21, 2020 at 11:46 pm

          +1 I second Wellington’s post.

  7. Wellington says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    The word “under” serves as a descriptive for Islam in general, both metaphorically and literally.

    Yes, the curse continues. The curse is Islam.

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    “The days of hiding behind borders and fences are long gone… migrants are good for a community, economically and every other way.”

    — the late Peter Sutherland of the UN, Paid Migration Promoter

    “Europe is already under an invasion. …. Brussels will not protect Europe. They do not want to stop the migration, but rather to support it and organize it. They want to dilute and replace the people of Europe!”
    – Viktor Orban

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 21, 2020 at 7:48 pm

      Michael Copeland,

      Precisely the reason why Viktor Orban is hated by the European commission…

  9. Yogi says

    Aug 21, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Useless savages!!, get them back where are belongs to, to Islamic countries !!, Merkel is responsible for this horrific mess , watch our daughters, granddaughters , wife’s , this pigs can harm them big time!!!, maybe Merkel schould have slice of this disgusting creatures ugh!!…

  10. Dawne says

    Aug 22, 2020 at 7:06 am

    “High welfare countries” Aarrghhhh – how many times does the UK government need to be told to reduce its benefits package for “asylum seekers”/”refugees”. It is so frustrating – how on earth are we going to pull this back?

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