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A few months ago, I went to the San Francisco International Film olixar flexishield iphone xr gel case - black Festival to see the Colin Farrell movie "The Lobster."It's about people at an isolated resort who get turned into animals if they don't find a mate within 45 days, I was expecting a lighthearted romantic comedy, What I saw instead (spoiler alert!) was a fairly dark story where hunting humans who've tried to escape the resort is a key plot element, When I visited Hungary and Serbia in early August with my CNET colleagues Joan Solsman and Andrew Hoyle, I couldn't stop thinking about "The Lobster." That's because Hungary also hunts humans -- refugees trying to cross the border from Serbia to seek asylum in the European Union..
Refugees at the Horgos camp on the border between Hungary and Serbia don't have showers, Wi-Fi or electricity. Hungary built a massive fence (10 feet tall and stretching 181 miles along the border with Serbia and Croatia) to keep out migrants and refugees. Any who make it across illegally are tracked down by people in uniform -- including police officers and " border hunter action unit" personnel -- and are literally pushed back across the border, with their bones broken, their possessions missing and their fragile sense of security shattered.
"These are very brutal physical attacks," Andras Lederer, information and advocacy officer for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, told me, His group provides legal counsel to refugees and has started documenting abuse against people at the border, "It's indiscriminate, so women, children, unaccompanied children, men, the elderly, the handicapped [are all targeted], It doesn't matter."The refugees from Syria and Afghanistan now camping along the border don't have electricity, Wi-Fi or even showers, Some were cheated and then abandoned by smugglers, Most have no idea what will happen to them next, olixar flexishield iphone xr gel case - black The people hunting them, meanwhile, have mobile thermo-vision cameras, night-vision goggles, helicopters and dogs..
Budapest, seen here at sunset from a rooftop bar in the center of the city, is considered one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Even when I was in Budapest, one of Europe's most beautiful cities, it was pretty clear that Hungary doesn't want refugees. It doesn't want them to camp on the border. It doesn't want them to feel welcome even when they've been granted asylum. Aid workers are doing what they can to help, but they're a small percentage of the population. There's a big vote coming up October 2, in which Hungarians will decide if they want to allow Brussels (aka, the European Union) to mandate the number of refugees their country has to accept. The EU asked Hungary to accept 1,294 people (out of 160,000 overall) and said it would fine the country 250,000 euros for each person Hungary refuses to take. That would amount to a penalty of more than 323.5 million euros ($363.9 million).
