Already Unwelcoming, Hungary Now Detains Asylum Seekers<br />Hungary, which already had one of the toughest immigration policies in the European Union, last month rolled out a draconian new asylum procedure<br />that will reduce applicants to a trickle — 10 people a day — and essentially put them in prison camps for months while their cases are decided.<br />But if Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, provoked a loud outcry from his European peers by slapping up a razor-wire border fence two<br />years ago as hundreds of thousands of migrants flooded into Europe, this time the condemnation, at least from his political peers, is more muted.<br />The number allowed in will now be limited to five people a day at each of the two camps,<br />and only on weekdays — a total of 50 people per week — with families given priority.<br />Today, about 150 people live in a camp outside Subotica, one of 17 such camps in Serbia<br />where refugees must come to get their names put on a list to be allowed into Hungary.<br />Mohammed Wafa Sekendari said that I do not try to cross illegally,<br />As for the several hundred asylum seekers already living in Hungary, government officials say they will be taken to the new border camps as well.
