Hungary OKs North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, European Union troops to help guard border

About 6,000 migrants are passing through daily now, officials say, coming over the border from Croatia and being sent directly to Austria. “The EU should do this before it is too late”, said Iverna McGowan, Acting Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office.

The borders are flanked by soldiers, police are authorized to use rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and pyrotechnical devices, while armored vehicles mounted with machine guns and men with Special Forces style firearms are positioned along the border with Croatia. A few 4,700 Hungarian soldiers are now at the country’s southern borders with Serbia and Croatia. A 32-year-old Iraqi woman told AI that after refusing to be fingerprinted, a policewoman pushed her against a wall, leaving her with a fractured thigh.

“Personally I think this (the closure) is inevitable”, Lazar said.

It said detention could be used as a measure of last resort to make sure failed applicants actually go back and insisted enough pre-departure detention centers should be available. An autopsy showed they had most likely suffocated while still in Hungary.

According to Politico, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed the attitude of Eastern European governments in response to the refugee crisis – but isn’t free from criticism herself, for hastily opening Germany’s borders to asylum seekers – and then imposing stricter controls.

“They are treating us like animals, worse that animals”. “It prevents us to stay here”.

The briefing highlights the massive disparity between the bulk of anti-immigration spending compared to the budget for processing asylum seekers’ applications.

Austria might close its border in connection with the completion of the building of a border fence in Hungary.

“This money would be far more wisely invested in saving lives and improving futures”. AI asks European Union member states to refrain from sending refugees back to Hungary under the Dublin rules, arguing that reception conditions there are inadequate.

At the same time, he put to the European Union nations a far-reaching plan to beef up the external borders by committing member states to contribute more personnel to the EU’s border agency and eventually set up a largely autonomous worldwide “corps” that could intervene wherever a crisis appears.