Magyar: Government ‘unfit’ to handle migration

In a post on Facebook, Magyar accused Prime Minister Viktor Orban of using the issue of migration to deflect attention from “Hungary’s economic collapse and the health-care crisis”. He said “locals in Vitnyed, in Gyor-Moson-Sopron County” were saying that the government was planning to settle 500 illegal migrants in the village, in north-western Hungary, and put them under the supervision of the military.

“Enough with the deflections and the lies,” Magyar said, and asked the government why it wanted to use taxpayer money to turn a formerly reputable school into a “migrant camp”.

“The people in Vitnyed are afraid, and the homes there and are losing their value,” he said, insisting that the government had gone back on its promise to protect Hungarians from illegal migrants and released 2,000 people smugglers. He said the government was also bringing in “60,000 Asian economic migrants a year”, putting the profits of multinational companies before the safety and livelihood of the Hungarian people.

Magyar said the Tisza party supported strict migration regulations and the protection of Hungary’s borders, and called on the government to stop building migrant camps and withdraw its decision to settle Asian economic migrants in the country.