Austria inspects trucks for migrants, creates 18-mile backup
Source: AP
By PABLO GORONDI
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Austria stepped up vehicle inspections Monday at its Hungarian border after 71 migrants apparently suffocated in a truck, creating a huge traffic jam on the main Budapest-Vienna highway.
In addition to the gridlock at the Hegyeshalom border crossing about a 30-kilometer (18 1/2-mile) backup at its peak traffic was slower than usual at other spots along the Hungary-Austria border, the traffic monitoring firm Utinform reported.
At Budapest's Keleti train terminal, meanwhile, hundreds of migrants, many saying they were from Syria, were boarding trains headed west to Austria and Germany, without apparent police intervention.
In past months, Hungarian police, sometimes acting with colleagues from Germany and Austria, often removed migrants without the necessary travel documents from the trains.
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A long queue of vehicles waits on the M1 motorway near the border between Hungary and Austria near Mosonmagyarovar, 158 km northwest from Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. The line has reached 20 kilometers as every vehicle capable of smuggling people is checked at the border after 71 migrants were found dead in a truck Thursday. (Csaba Krizsan/MTI via AP)
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Raymondo22
(31 posts)It's happening everywhere.
dembotoz
(16,737 posts)would the gop be calling for them to be shot on sight?
renegade000
(2,301 posts)"If I was in charge, we wouldn't have this problem. We'd just do X, it's SO SIMPLE!"
Yes, let's start searching ALL the trucks for migrants without building proper infrastructure to handle this new policy.
It will be interesting to see where this all goes. Maybe they're really serious about this new policy, in which case they'll likely have to build much bigger border crossings and hire tons more law enforcement officers. Chances are, though, this was all just a short-term political reaction, in which case we'll be down to some reduced/random form of search policy after the public tires of this.