{"id":92999,"date":"2017-03-08T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92999"},"modified":"2017-03-08T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:21:11","slug":"hungary-amends-migration-laws-allowing-to-move-all-asylum-seekers-to-border-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/08\/hungary-amends-migration-laws-allowing-to-move-all-asylum-seekers-to-border-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary amends migration laws, allowing to move all asylum seekers to border zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93000\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hungary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93000\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hungary.png\" alt=\"Hungary hardens its already-tough stance against asylum seekers on Tuesday, as lawmakers adopted the amendments of its migration laws, with 138 votes for, 22 against and six abstentions.  (Photo: Dennis Jarvis\/Flickr)\" width=\"537\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hungary.png 537w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hungary-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hungary hardens its already-tough stance against asylum seekers on Tuesday, as lawmakers adopted the amendments of its migration laws, with 138 votes for, 22 against and six abstentions. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/archer10\/32491934701\/\">Dennis Jarvis\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BUDAPEST\u2014Hungary hardens its already-tough stance against asylum seekers on Tuesday, as lawmakers adopted the amendments of its migration laws, with 138 votes for, 22 against and six abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>On March 2, Hungary had extended the countrywide state of crisis situation by six months until September 7, citing mass migration.<\/p>\n<p>During the crisis period, the new and amended migration laws prevent asylum seekers from moving around the country until their applications are decided.<\/p>\n<p>Asylum seekers can only present their applications in one of the so-called &#8220;transit zones&#8221;, which were built with converted shipping containers and were located along Hungary&#8217;s southern borders with Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the amended laws, the applicants can leave the &#8220;transit zones&#8221; only towards Serbia during the evaluation of their cases.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments also cut the appeal period to just three days after the application is denied.<\/p>\n<p>The new amended laws also enable Hungarian police to detain and bring back to the &#8220;transit zones&#8221; every illegal alien found deeper inside the territory of Hungary during the crisis period.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the amendments, police were only allowed to transport the illegal aliens from an 8-km wide band from the Hungarian borders.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Minister of the Interior Sandor Pinter defended the controversial amended laws.<\/p>\n<p>A great number of migrants deposited their claims to the Hungarian authorities, but moved over quickly to Western countries without waiting for their case to be assessed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the new laws, nobody will step illegally on the soil of Hungary and the European Union, he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST\u2014Hungary hardens its already-tough stance against asylum seekers on Tuesday, as lawmakers adopted the amendments of its migration laws, with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[3550,16313],"class_list":["post-92999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-hungary","tag-migration-laws","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}