Hungary may deploy army on borders to keep out migrants

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Hungary may deploy army on borders to keep out migrants
Migrants wait behind a fence guarded by police as the Keleti train terminal in Budapest, Hungary.

Budapest - "It's not 150,000 (migrants coming) that some want to divide according to quotas, it's tens of millions, because the supply of immigrants is endless."

By Reuters

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Published: Sat 5 Sep 2015, 4:14 PM

Last updated: Sun 6 Sep 2015, 11:14 AM

Hungary will deploy police forces along its southern border after Sept. 15 to stem a refugee influx and also send in the military if parliament approves a government proposal, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday.
"The big changes will come after September 15... and we'll bring the border under control step by step," Orban told a news conference. "We'll send in the police, then, if we get approval from parliament, we'll deploy the military.
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"It's not 150,000 (migrants coming) that some want to divide according to quotas, it's not 500,000, a figure that I heard in Brussels, it's millions, then tens of millions, because the supply of immigrants is endless," the right-wing premier said.


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