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Serbia and Peter Szijjarto

illegal immigrants: Szijjarto rationale for resorting to such a drastic measure results from a months-long flood of asylum seekers pouring into southern Hungary, according to The Chronicle Herald. While tens of thousands of these desperate illegal immigrants have been caught, detained and returned into Serbia, the vast majority have used the processing time for their asylum applications to simply disappear into other western European countries. On June 17, Peter Szijjarto, foreign minister of Hungary centre-right government, made the startling declaration that his national security forces will erect a four-metre wall along the entire 175 kilometres of shared border with Serbia. This, of course, explains why there is no public outcry from other members of the European Union over Hungary decision to fence out this wave of desperate humanity. I thought the Berlin Wall had fallen, but now new walls are being constructed, stated Serbia foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, referring to the Cold War barrier that stood from 1961 until 1991. For impoverished Serbia, staunching the flow of these refugees at its northern border has generated the opposite reaction. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.