‘I hope it inspires the Americans’: Hungarian mayor boasts that new 10ft razor-wire electric border fence has protected his country from mass immigration
Far-right mayor László Toroczkai, 40, insists fence ‘saved’ his town of Ásotthalom
The barrier was erected at the height of the migrant crisis across Europe in 2015
Toroczkai said he hopes 100-mile fence, guarded by soldiers, ‘inspires’ the US
US President Donald Trump is planning to build a wall along US-Mexico border
By JULIAN ROBINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
2 May 2018
A mayor in Hungary has boasted that a new 10ft razor-wire electric border fence has protected his country from mass immigration – and hopes it will ‘inspire’ the US.
László Toroczkai insists the 100-mile fence, erected during the 2015 migrant crisis in Europe, had ‘saved’ his town – Ásotthalom – on Hungary’s border with Serbia.
The far-right mayor claims the two parallel barriers – guarded by soldiers, thermal cameras and 3,000 ‘border hunters’ – has restored ‘calmness’ in the rural community which had been in the path of a wave of refugees moving north through the continent three years ago.
Toroczkai, who is bidding for leadership of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik movement, believes US President Donald Trump should be encouraged by Hungary’s hard line stance and insisted: ‘I hope it inspires the Americans.’
Trump’s hard line against illegal immigration has been a centrepiece of his presidency, as he pursues an ‘America First’ agenda that includes a proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that he has said is needed to stem the flow of immigrants and drug trafficking.
According to NBC, Toroczkai was a key advocate of building the fence at the height of the 2015 crisis. It was eventually given the green light and authorities in the country insist it has closed down a major migrant route through Europe.
He said: ‘This was not normal migration – this was like an attack. People moved here for a calm life and they destroyed this calmness.’
The 40-year-old, a divorced father-of-three, has developed a following among the far-right having appeared in his own video message to migrants in which he warned: ‘Hungary is a bad choice – Ásotthalom is the worst.’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, recently re-elected for a third straight term with a huge majority, has made stopping the entry of migrants and refugees a central plank of government policy.
But on Friday, the country was accused of failing to do enough to identify potential victims of human trafficking in its ‘transit zones’ for migrants and asylum seekers.
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