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WORLD NEWS Friday 16 March 2018

Hungary's Orban: Western Europe is under migrant invasion

By PABLO GORONDI is increasingly delusional."
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Orban has made his poli-
— Hungary's prime minister cies to block immigration
painted an apocalyptic the near-exclusive focus
view of Western Europe on of his campaign for a third
Thursday, saying it was un- consecutive term. His rela-
der a migrant invasion that tively short speech to the
will soon make a minority of crowd in front of the Hun-
native-born Europeans. garian Parliament building
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, seemed crafted mostly to
speaking at a massive rally further increase fear of mi-
three weeks ahead of Hun- gration among his support-
gary's parliamentary elec- ers. "They want us to volun-
tion, said Western Europe tarily give (our country) to
has surrendered with "its others, to foreigners from
hands up" to a mass migra- other continents who don't
tion of people from Africa speak our language, don't
and the Middle East. respect our culture, laws or
"The situation is that those lifestyle," Orban said. "They
who don't block migration want to exchange ours for
at their borders will be lost. their own. There is no exag-
They will be digested slowly geration in this."
but surely," said Orban, one Orban also claimed that
of the nationalist politicians Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks outside the Hungarian Parliament building in Buda- foreign powers were work-
who has risen to power in pest, Hungary, Thursday, March 15, 2018, during celebrations of the Hungarian national holiday, ing with his domestic oppo-
Europe and been openly the 170th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1848 revolution and war of independence against the sition to remove the fences
Habsburgs. Banner on stage and on microphone stand reads "March 15 - The Homeland before
hostile to refugees and asy- all else". he had built on Hungary’s
lum-seekers. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) southern borders in 2015 to
"The youth of Western Eu- keep out migrants.
rope will still live to see when Orban has often said that His comments last month Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. Orban also made another
they become a minority in mass migration of Muslims that Hungarians don't want High Commissioner for Hu- of his attacks on George
their own country and lose into Europe will lead to the their "own color, traditions man Rights, to brand Orban Soros, the Hungarian-Amer-
the only place in the world loss of the continent's Chris- and national culture to be a racist, xenophobe and ican billionaire and philan-
to call home," he added. tian culture and lifestyle. mixed by others" led Zeid bully whose "racial rhetoric thropist. q

Austria deports Afghan sisters, children based on EU ruling

By DARKO BANDIC and enrolling the children that require asylum-seek- member country since July that they and others like
DAVID RISING in school, Jafari said. ers to apply for protection 2013. Croatian authorities them should be allowed to
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — "I cry every day, every night, in the first EU country they arranged transportation remain. Even with the Euro-
Khadija Jafari cries as she and cannot sleep. My child reached. to Slovenia, and the sisters pean court ruling in the sis-
looks at the asylum-seeker's says every day, 'Why am I The European Court of Jus- and their children made ters' appeal, Austria did not
home in Croatia where she, not going to kindergarten?" tice agreed in a landmark their way to Austria. have to deport them, Riedl
her sister and their three she told The Associated July ruling that puts the Christoph Riedl, a policy said. The court stressed that
children have spent three Press in German during an residency status of tens of adviser with humanitar- the Dublin agreement per-
nights since they were de- interview in Croatia's capi- thousands of other refu- ian aid group Diakonie, mitted countries to "unilat-
ported from Austria. tal, Zagreb. "We cannot gees in doubt. said Austria has deported erally or bilaterally in a spirit
The two women arrived in stay here." After they fled Afghanistan, hundreds of asylum-seek- of solidarity... examine ap-
Austria as asylum-seekers Austrian authorities argued Jafari, her 4-year-old son, ers under the EU's "Dublin" plications for international
from Afghanistan in 2016. the family should be sent her sister and the sister's two agreement. But lawyers ar- protection lodged with
They did their best to inte- to Croatia because of Eu- children traveled through gued the Jafari family had them, even if they are not
grate by learning German ropean Union regulations Serbia to Croatia, an EU become so well-integrated required to."q