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‘Fighting Illegal Migration Not Possible
Without Physical Barriers at Border’
The Hungarian prime minister’s spokesman has said that “fighting illegal migration is basically not possible without physical infrastructure,” and that failing to do so is a “sign of weakness”.
Zoltán Kovács, Secretary of State for International Communication in Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s conservative-national populist government, told Townhall that in 2015, when Germany’s Angela Merkel invited migrants into Europe unilaterally, his country was overwhelmed.
“We were not able to stop them because there was no fence and we were not much prepared as neither was Europe prepared… fighting illegal migration is basically not possible without physical infrastructure and that is physical barriers at the borders today,” he explained.