Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 7:43 a.m. No.1846821   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6837

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Dems greet Trump exec order ending border separations with shrugs, new demands

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Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 7:56 a.m. No.1846965   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6982

This is dated April 12, but I never saw it make it's way here.

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Hungary: Pro-govt weekly prints list of 'Soros mercenaries'

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Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 8:01 a.m. No.1847020   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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EU seeks to screen migrants in Africa, stop boat crossings

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Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 8:05 a.m. No.1847074   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Couple this with this link below, and Soros may be sitting in a prison before to long.:

Hungary's pro-Trump, populist government pushes Soros crackdown

www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/20/hungarys-pro-trump-populist-government-pushes-soros-crackdown.html

Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 8:13 a.m. No.1847144   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Soros group pulls out of Hungary as Orban government floats 'Stop Soros' package

 

Left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations announced Tuesday that it is pulling out of Hungary – a month after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party comfortably won national elections after campaigning to crack down on Soros groups.

Citing the “repressive political and legal environment” in Hungary, the international organization said it is moving its offices from Budapest to Berlin, Germany. It pointed specifically to the “Stop Soros” package of legislation being pushed by Orban – who has repeatedly clashed with the Budapest-born Soros and accused him of leading a "mercenary army."

“The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union,” Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations and a former Obama White House political affairs director, said in a statement.

 

“The so-called Stop Soros package of laws is only the latest in a series of such attempts. It has become impossible to protect the security of our operations and our staff in Hungary from arbitrary government interference.”

Orban said this week that the “Stop Soros” package, which he had proposed before the election, would be submitted to Parliament as soon as the new Hungarian government was formed.

“We shall deliver on what we promised”, he said in response to a question in Warsaw, Poland.

According to Reuters, the package would include mandatory registration of non-government organizations that the government says “support[s] illegal immigration.” The package would reportedly include a 25 percent tax on foreign donations that NGOs collect, and such groups may also be hit by restraining orders to stop them going near Hungarian borders.

 

Orban’s Fidesz Party won a supermajority in Parliament after it focused its re-election campaign in particular on the topic of mass migration, handing Orban a fourth term in office.

Hungary was on the frontlines of the initial European migration crisis in 2015, and Orban has been one of Europe’s loudest opponents of mass migration since. He sparked outrage from the European Union and human rights group when his government implemented strict border controls and built a fence at its border.

“We leave it to the voters but this is a very clear question that should be decided, whether they would like to have a Hungarian Hungary or a Hungary occupied by migrants,” Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told Fox News ahead of the election.

Orban has accused the Hungarian-American Soros of supporting anti-Orban forces and promoting an open-borders ideology.

 

"Let’s not fool ourselves," Orban said in March, according to Bloomberg. "The real foes we need to fight aren’t anemic little opposition parties, but an international network organized into an empire.”

 

Soros has used his financial muscle for years to push left-wing causes across the globe. In Davos, Switzerland in January, Soros said his Open Society Foundations is funding more institutions in the U.S. to ensure a Democratic victory in November.

 

It was revealed in February that he had pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into a UK group that looked to thwart the implementation of the 2016 decision to leave the European Union.

After the election last month, Orban accused Soros’ group of mobilizing “inordinate amounts of money” and said he was confident that the group would not accept the election result.

“Over the past two years, the Hungarian government has spent more than 100 million euros in public funds on a campaign to spread lies about the Foundations and their partners,” the statement from Open Society Foundations said.

 

“The government’s hate campaign has included propaganda posters and billboards, invoking anti-Semitic imagery from World War II, and a supposed “national consultation” attacking George Soros, founder and chair of the Open Society Foundations, and Hungarian human rights groups.”

 

The group said it has funded milk for schoolchildren, provided hospital equipment and “helped the country’s poorest and most vulnerable.”

But last month, amid initial reports that Open Society Foundations may relocate, Orban said in a radio interview: “I am not going to shed crocodile tears, our listeners will perhaps understand why.”

Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 8:27 a.m. No.1847299   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Hungary's pro-Trump, populist government pushes Soros crackdown

 

Hungary’s populist government is brimming with confidence after a comfortable election win in April, and is pushing ahead with tough policies on immigration and combating the influence of left-wing Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.

President Trump spoke with Prime Minister Viktor Orban last week, congratulating him on the formation of the new government.

 

According to a readout from the White House, the two “agreed on the need for strong national borders” and pledged to keep relations between the two countries strong.

While Orban’s Fidesz Party had been expected to win the election, analysts had cautioned that the party’s decision to campaign almost exclusively on the issue of mass migration could hurt its standing as voters’ focus was elsewhere. Allegations of corruption and authoritarianism from human rights groups also risked damaging Fidesz’s standing in the polls.

But Fidesz’ focus paid off, and the party emerged with a strong majority in the Hungarian parliament. Now, the populist government is cracking down not only on immigration but also the influence of Soros, whom Orban has accused of leading a “mercenary army” via his non-governmental groups.

“George Soros had a clear target, to beat this government, to fire this government but that was not very successful, let’s put it this way,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Fox News in a recent interview in New York.

On Wednesday, the Hungarian Parliament passed the “Stop Soros” bill, including a measure making it illegal for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to organize illegal immigration into the country. Such organization can range from financial support to the distribution and preparation of information and pamphlets.

 

SOROS GROUP PULLS OUT OF HUNGARY AS ORBAN GOVERNMENT FLOATS 'STOP SOROS' PACKAGE

 

The law would punish individuals engaging in such activities with up to 12 months in jail. The government has also floated a 25 percent tax for any foreign funding for NGOs helping migrants.

“This strengthened protection is needed because the mass immigration afflicting Europe is continuous, while the Soros network and the pro-immigration policy of Brussels are creating the threat of attempts to also swamp our country with migrants,” Orban’s office said in a statement.

While the legislation targets any non-governmental organization, Szijjarto made it clear who the government was targeting: “Soros is the number one organizer of such activities.”

 

The government’s anti-Soros activities and rhetoric have not gone unnoticed. Soros’ Open Society Foundation has moved its Budapest offices to Berlin after what it described as a “repressive political and legal environment.”

“The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union,” Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations and a former Obama White House political affairs director, said in a statement last month.

“The so-called Stop Soros package of laws is only the latest in a series of such attempts. It has become impossible to protect the security of our operations and our staff in Hungary from arbitrary government interference.”

Amnesty International’s Europe Director told The New York Times that the new law marked “a new low point in an intensifying crackdown on civil society and it is something we will resist every step of the way.”

Hungary has long been a pariah in the eyes of the European Union and United Nations, and was one of the few governments to initially push back against the opening of Europe’s borders during the 2015 migration crisis.

But it has also drawn close to the Trump administration and has welcomed some comparisons to the Trump movement – noting that it has built a fence on the border and deployed troops to secure it. Szijjarto recently met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington, the first such meeting in six years, where the State Department said they discussed increased U.S. investment in Hungary, as well as a defense cooperation agreement.

The Hungarian government is likely to be buoyed also by Trump’s criticism of more liberal immigration policies in Europe, particularly in Germany.

“Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” Trump tweeted on Monday.

Anonymous ID: 9658c8 June 21, 2018, 8:33 a.m. No.1847376   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Nikki Haley blasts UN report on poverty in America as 'misleading'

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