Hungarian volunteers helping migrants protest their own right wing government

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Hungary: Volunteers helping migrants turn anti-Orban


Many Hungarians have taken it upon themselves to offer help to migrants, as the government appears to sit on its hands

Helping migrants in Hungary has inadvertently become a political protest against prime minister Viktor Orban’s government for those outraged by the country's apparent inertia on dealing with the growing crisis.

A planned demonstration on Wednesday evening (2 September) in Budapest will protest against changes to immigration laws that critics say curb basic human rights.

The right-wing government has done little to provide basic services, but reacted to the influx of people with a series of anti-migrant billboards and has, just recently, completed a 175-kilometre razor-wire fence which runs along its southern border with Serbia to keep migrants out.

“How much money was spent on inciting hatred from the billboards to the fence?,” Bruder added, arguing that that it is not a lack of resources, but rather goodwill on the side of the Hungarian government that there is no basic help for migrants. “Luckily the people are generous,” she adds, with a sigh.

https://euobserver.com/migration/130084

Good to see liberal Hungarians helping the refugees when their government refuses to do so.