State Secretary Criticizes Frontex’s Inability to Protect Europe’s Borders

Brussels does not even intend to protect Europe’s borders from illegal migration, Barna Pál Zsigmond, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of EU Affairs, wrote in a social media post. He expressed disappointment over the fact that the head of Frontex, the European border protection agency, believes that migration cannot be stopped.

In his post, the state secretary called it absurd that while the official body responsible for Europe’s borders is supposed to protect Europe from the mass of migrants arriving illegally, new Frontex director Hans Leijtens told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “nothing can stop people crossing borders, no wall, no fence, no sea, no river.”

Barna Pál Zsigmond found it “disheartening” that

the man who is supposed to be responsible for protecting Europe’s borders thinks that the authority he leads is so inadequate to protect Europe’s borders from migration.

However, the state secretary believes that Hungary’s “consistent migration policy” is working, and the country has not allowed itself to be turned into a “migrant country.” “We have built the fence, we maintain border protection, we have introduced legal border closures, we reject Brussels’ pro-migration policy, we oppose the distribution and resettlement of illegal migrants flooding Europe, and the creation of migrant ghettos,” the politician wrote.

He argued that

if Brussels were to put an end to pro-migration policies, migrants arriving illegally would not be able to cross “neither walls nor fences, neither seas nor rivers.”

He thinks that the current leadership in Brussels and the left are “committed to implementing the Soros plan,” and that a recent statement from Brussels also highlighted that Hungarian migration policy is one of the main reasons for the political attacks on Hungary.

Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/SOS MEDITERRANEE France