Hungary shuts border to save “Christian values”

The migrants, who started to enter Croatia early on Wednesday, were being registered with police in Tovarnik, near the border with Serbia.

The largest border crossing point, Bajakovo-Batrovci, is still open.

According to the BBC, Croatia has been overwhelmed by the new arrivals.

“Don’t come here anymore”.

It comes just a day after Croatia warned it did not have the resources to cope with an influx of migrants.

Hungary, which has been the transit route for over 180,000 migrants this year, has built a 3.5-metre (10-foot) fence on its frontier with Serbia and implemented a raft of immigration laws to clamp down on migration.

The rights group said the children were thought to have been brought to a nearby border control building.

Meanwhile the Slovakian Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the mandatory quota system for the distribution of migrants in EU countries proposed by the European Commission. Budapest has threatened to imprison anyone trying to illegally enter the country.

However the migrant crisis has seen an informal relaxation in those rules. They’ve so far been reluctant to go through Croatia, as they still must go to either Hungary or Slovenia before reaching Austria or Germany.

In another display of the divisions within Europe, Hungary called on Croatia to register those seeking asylum rather than allowing them to continue to other countries.

Tanjug’s reported at Horgos in the north said on Thursday that four buses with refugees from the Middle East departed toward Sid in the northwest, near the country’s border with Croatia.

Hundreds were involved in clashes with Hungarian border police who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds of frustrated migrants.

Hundreds of people were trapped Tuesday behind the barrier erected by Hungary along its border with Serbia in an attempt to halt the migrant tide.

“If we understand that there is a more systemic problem across the European Union , the Commission has the possibility to recommend specific introductions”, the official said.

Slovenia – the eastern extreme of the Schengen area – has also introduced border controls, as Ljubljana announced on Thursday that its frontier with Hungary would be closed for at least 10 days.

“We will not and cannot keep them in Croatia and no one will make us do that”, he said.

He said a fast-solution fence will be finished on the critical 41km stretch of the border – where the two countries are not divided by a river – by the end of today.