Migrants Face Deportations and Walls in Europe, Too<br />Hungary’s defense minister, Istvan Simicsko, said, "The goals of the new government of the United States confirm the correctness of Hungarian security<br />policy thinking." He was referring to a speech made by Vice President Mike Pence at last weekend’s annual security conference in Munich.<br />Ms. Merkel, under pressure from both the right and the left as she seeks a fourth term in September elections, cited Mr. Amri’s attack as she pressed Germany’s 16 states — which are responsible for deportation — to stop "this considerable danger to life<br />and limb." She then pointedly urged the visiting Tunisian prime minister to redouble his country’s battle against terrorism.<br />Amnesty said that Rounding up all men, women and children seeking asylum<br />and detaining them months on end in container camps is a new low in Hungary’s race to the bottom on asylum seekers and refugees,<br />He built a fence along his country’s borders with Serbia and Croatia to block refugees fleeing the war-afflicted Middle East via a Balkan route;<br />that route largely shut down last spring after the union persuaded Turkey to stanch the flow, and governments along the way shut their borders for the most part.<br />The new decree eliminates the right to appeal an asylum rejection,<br />and adds staff to process requests faster — something Germany is also grappling with after Ms. Merkel threw open her country’s borders in fall 2015.<br />The deportation was only the third such mass expulsion to Afghanistan since last fall, and in combination with new antiterrorism measures, it was a clear sign of the stiffening political headwinds<br />that have made Europe, like America, a less welcoming place for migrants.
