Hungary’s Prime minister said Tuesday that migration is the ‘Trojan horse’ of terrorism and that the current slowdown of the migration flow is only temporary.
Hungary recently approved plans to detain asylum seekers in shipping containers, the United Nation expressed their outrage and said that it will have a ‘psychological’ impact on the migrants.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban justified the move, saying that Hungary had to act to defend itself.
“Migration is the Trojan wooden horse of terrorism,” Orban said at a swearing-in ceremony for a new group of border guards, called “border hunters” by the government.
“The people that come to us don’t want to live according to our culture and customs but according to their own — at European standards of living.”
“We are still, at this moment, under siege,” Orban said. “The migration flow has only slowed but it is not over. We have gained time to strengthen our lines of defense.”
During a state of emergency due to migration all asylum seekers will be kept at camps built from shipping containers until a final decision is made on their asylum requests.