After gaining a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian parliament, the Christian Democratic alliance led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has passed a comprehensive law designed to prevent illegal immigration, in addition to the controversial “Stop Soros” Act.
Many thanks to CrossWare for translating this article from the Hungarian daily Magyar Idők (Hungarian Times):
The Hungarian Parliament Passed the Amendment of the Basic Law and the Stop Soros Law
June 20, 2018
Parliament adopted the seventh amendment to the Basic Law at the initiative of the government on Wednesday. The fundamental obligation of the state to protect the country’s constitutional identity and Christian culture, and to prevent the settlement of a foreign population in Hungary was enshrined in the constitution. According to the adopted Stop Soros Act, the promotion and support of illegal immigration will be criminal offenses under the law.
- Each state body has a duty to protect the country’s constitutional identity and Christian culture
- No foreign population may be settled in Hungary
- The criteria have been established for refugee status in Hungary
- It is forbidden to live permanently in a public area (homeless people)
- Vote for the constitutional protection of the homeland
- The Supreme Administrative Court is hereby established
- Supporting, assisting and organizing illegal immigration will be punishable with prison sentences
- The main objective is to prevent Hungary becoming an migrant-accepting country
The law requiring the support of two-thirds of all parliamentary representatives was approved by 159 votes for YES to 5 votes for NO.
With the amendment submitted by László Trócsányi, Minister of Justice, the constitutional identity and the Christian culture of the country became a duty of all organs of the state. The wording of the responsibilities shared with the EU was extended and incorporated in the constitution. The innovation is that the exercise of common competence must be in line with the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the Basic Law, and must not restrict the inalienable right to dispose of the territorial units, population, state forms and state structures of Hungary.
No foreign population may be settled in Hungary, they recorded.
The text of the Basic Law now includes the stipulation that that a foreign citizen without the right to move and reside can [only] live on Hungarian territory on the basis of an individual request from the Hungarian authorities. As specified in the text, it has been determined who is entitled to asylum in Hungary: non-Hungarian nationals who are persecuted because they belong to a particular social group, for reasons of religious or political beliefs in their country of origin or country of their habitual residence, or because their fears of direct persecution are well-founded.
Until now the Basic Law did not contain the restriction that a non-Hungarian citizen who came to Hungary through a country where there was no direct danger of persecution is not entitled to asylum. The basic rules for the granting of asylum are determined by a pragmatic law.
There is now a legal protection for the home. According to the Constitution, freedom of expression and the right of assembly cannot justify harming the private and family life of others, or their homes. [Translator’s note: This will take care of liberals and Antifa, who tries to harass opponents in their homes; it also takes care of the notorious homelessness, because there are plenty of job opportunities and housing available.] The current text of the Basic Law allows a law or local government to classify a habitual public place of residence as illegal in order to protect public order, public security, public health and cultural values in a specific part of the public domain.
With this amendment, from October 15 onward, it was forbidden to live in a public area.
This article also sets out the legal protection of the home, with Hungary ensuring the conditions of decent housing and the access to public services for all.
The police have been assigned the statutory duty to take part in preventing illegal immigration.
The amendment, with certain exceptions, will enter into force on the day following its publication.
With an Overwhelming Majority, Parliament Also Accepted the “Stop Soros” Act
Interior Minister Sándor Pintér’s request for two-thirds support was met by 160 votes in favor, 18 against in Parliament. The two-thirds majority included Fidesz, KDNP, Jobbik, Independent Dóra Dúró and Imre Ritter, who voted in favor, while MSZP, Dialogue, Independent Anett Bősz and Ákos Hadházy, who left the LMP, voted against it. Some other members abstained from the vote.
According to the new law:
It is against the law and punishable with a prison sentence to facilitate and support illegal immigration with organizing activities in order to allow the initiation of an asylum procedure in Hungary for a person who is not subject to persecution in his or her country of origin or in the country he or she transited to arrive in Hungary.
Organizing activities may also aim to obtain a residence permit for unauthorized entry. If a more serious offense is not committed, it is a misdemeanor, and these acts are punishable by closing down [the organization].
However, those who provide financial means for the commission of these offenses or carry out organizing activities on a regular basis shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year.
The same sanctions shall be applied against those who commit the crime for financial gain, for more than one person, or within the eight-kilometer border zone.
The punishment may be relieved without restriction if the perpetrator reveals the circumstances of the offense until the indictment has been handed down.
The Penal Code particularly identifies as an “organizing activity” the actions of someone organizes border monitoring, publishes, distributes or commissions information, or builds or operates a network [of activists]. A ban [from the country] may also be applied against the offenders.
The asylum law has been amended with the provision that it is no longer possible to accept an application for asylum from someone who arrives in Hungary through a country where he or she is not exposed to persecution, serious harm, or if the country through which he or she traveled has been adequately protected, or determined that the applicant might have applied there for such a claim.
According to the rapporteur, this provision is in line with the Geneva Convention, which protects only those who came directly from an area where their lives and their freedom were at risk.
In addition, several passages of the Asylum Act were considered to be pivotal.
The Stop Soros Act also changed the law on State borders, which now reads:
Those who are being prosecuted for the purpose of committing crimes related to border protection and state border rule should be absent from the eight-kilometer zone.
They do not, however, apply to the prohibition of those who for at least five years in the past had an address [home] in the eight-kilometer zone prior to the modification of the law.
Anyone who breaches the new rules of the State Border Act commits an offense, records the new modified law.
The legislation supplements the law on the police, on the one hand, with the provision that the police be involved in the prevention of illegal immigration.
On the other hand, the institution of border protection and removal has been included in the law for the removal by police from the Schengen border line, or within a distance of eight kilometers from the border line, those who are being prosecuted for the following offenses: illegal crossing of the border, obstructing and damaging border defense, smuggling people, facilitating illegal residence or facilitating illegal immigration.
The Act will enter into force on the first day of the month following its publication.
According to the justification of the proposal, the Hungarian people are right to expect the government to use all means to combat illegal immigration and associated activities.
This is the purpose of the Stop Soros Act, which “wants to prevent Hungary from becoming an immigrant country,” as was written in it.
Government: The Stop Soros Legal Package Expresses the Will of the Hungarian People
The Government Information Center said in a statement that enhanced protection is needed because “mass immigration affecting Europe is a continuous threat, while the Soros network and the immigration policy in Brussels threaten to flood our country with migrants”.
A representative of the OSCE said that Orbán’s passing a law that prevents human traffickers from succeeding means that he is helping them.
This is exactly like Soros. In the same article he accuses Putin of flooding Europe with Africans to disintegrate it, and proposes open borders for everybody to thwart Putin’s plans.
Only a neo-marxists could understand any logic in that…
There are 55,000 NGOs registered in Hungary according to NPR. In a country with circa 9500000 citizens that’s about 1 NGO for every 172 people! What in the world are they doing here? I’m trying to find a list of these NGOs but so far no joy.
I was also curious to see what Jobbik had to say for themselves regarding their support for this since last year they scuppered the works by not supporting the modifications proposed at that time. This is their take on it:
THE VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Jobbik’s parliamentary faction voted for the constitutional amendment wrongly called Stop Soros. The reason why we supported this “mixed salad”-like legislative package is because we agree with the basic intention and social need for giving priority to Hungary’s security and protection. We also agree with the protection of Christianity and private property while we reject the migrant allocation quotas. Jobbik’s main goal is to eliminate all legal loopholes that keep the gates open for any form of immigration, so we once again submitted our bill to terminate the residency bonds but the governing parties turned it down for the eighth time today.
As far as the “Stop Soros” package is concerned, we can state that the legislation has lost its Soros character since, contrary to the earlier bill, it prescribes neither a national security clearance and registration of NGOs funded by George Soros, nor a restriction of their activities that are against Hungary’s interests.
As a responsible opposition party however, we are obliged to call the attention of the public to the fact that today’s adopted bill, contrary to the statements of the pro-government propaganda, will not stop illegal migration, it is not suitable to protect Christianity and nor does it overrule the Geneva Convention, just as homeless people will stay in public areas until their housing problems are resolved. The bill also sets a framework for public administration courts, the actual regulation of which has not even begun.
Let us reassure the communities protesting against this bill that the legislation adopted today is impractical in its current form, its implementation is infeasible, so it will cause no harm. The government’s goal is not to actually solve the problems identified. What they want is to use the bill as a communication tool in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections and the Hungarian municipal elections.
https://www.jobbik.com/the_vote_on_the_constitutional_amendment
Just in case you didn’t know the meaning of the word “chutzpah”. Spain comes to the rescue of Europe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/06/21/spain-comes-to-the-defense-of-europe/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5980767d1292
Ah, “chutzpah”. Forgive me for introducing yet another musical reference:
In 1975, Leonard Bernstein conducted Berlioz’ Requiem (“La Grande Messe des Morts”) in the Chapel of St Louis in the Invalides in Paris, the space for which it was written; it was recorded live by French tv, and is on dvd. All the great and good of La France were there, including the President of the Republic, Valery Giscard de l’Estaing. Lenny wasn’t happy with one movement, and had the audience stay in their seats while he did it again. Now that’s “chutzpah”!
Ten years or so later, he was made a “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la Legion de France”, so I guess he got away with it!
Incidentally, the “Grande Messe” was first performed at the funeral of one General Damremont, who died in the siege of Algiers in the 1830s; not just another example of European colonialism, but an attempt to wipe out one of the Barbary Pirates’ bases.
I think it is time to move to Hungary or Poland…
If you are not Hungarian, forget it.
If they’ll let us in.
Time to vacation there, at least! I likely won’t get a vacation for at least another year, but Hungary is #1 on my wish list.
You can move there, but you will have to learn the language and integrate.
Orban is a hero but now has to leave the EU so he doesn’t receive threats from them to damage his economy.
The Barcelona accord allowing muslims to invade at will must be made null and void.
I’m hearing via friends that a new accord was signed not long ago in marakesh that extends the Barcelona accord of muslim Middle East countries to all of Africa also. Has anyone heard of this?
Yes
I do see some potential for the new Constitution to bite them in the future.
It mentions that foreigners are entitled to asylum if they are subject to persecution as a group or because of their religious or political beliefs.
I hope it is optional for the Hungarian government to grant asylum even to people in those categories. The Muslim world being what it is, at any given time, there are Shi’as being persecuted as a group by Sunnis, or visa versa, Sufis being persecuted by both Sunni and Shia, and Amadiyyas being persecuted by Sunnis, Shi’as and Sufis.
In addition, you always have one tribe of headhunters in Africa persecuting another tribe of headhunters, all Muslims persecuting Hindus, Hindus persecuting non-Hindus (not too common, but exists), and on and on.
In other words, no country can serve as the refuge for the world. In the case of the United States, it was in the interest of the US to give refuge to Russian refugees under the USSR, but emphatically not in the interests of the US to give refuge to the Muslims of China, who act like typical Muslims: aloof, disruptive and insular.
Especially in the future, with the population explosion of sub-Saharan Africa, and the increasing mixture of “diversity” mandates by globalist organizations, the likelihood of systematic persecution, or even genocide, by governments increases. So, the genuine fear of persecution cannot in itself, serve as a ticket to another country. It just won’t work: the host country will simply be destroyed.
Very true: charity begins at home.
Not entitled to asylum. They will have the right to apply for asylum. Big difference!
Maybe.
But, this is the text of the article here:
” As specified in the text, it has been determined who is entitled to asylum in Hungary: non-Hungarian nationals who are persecuted because they belong to a particular social group, for reasons of religious or political beliefs in their country of origin or country of their habitual residence, or because their fears of direct persecution are well-founded.”
God bless Hungary and Viktor Orban!