Migrants Arrive In Austria, Germany After Being Bused To Border

[EC]

My news feed is going nuts with this story, so may as well share the pain.

German police say that about 450 migrants from Hungary have arrived at a train station in Munich after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would not limit the number of asylum seekers allowed in.

An estimated 4,000 people arrived in Austria, many en route to Germany, after the Hungarian government blocked them from leaving the country by train earlier this week.

Many, frustrated by being stopped, set off on foot Friday, walking for hours toward the western border. They had covered up to 30 miles on foot — about one third of the way to the border — before the Hungarian government supplied buses to carry them. Authorities in Germany and Austria agreed to accept them.

But Hungary now says it has stopped providing buses for migrants to travel to Austria and Germany.

Kerry Skyring, reporting for NPR from Vienna, says the Budapest government says that providing buses was a one-off move to relieve an emergency situation.

"Once more hundreds have set out on foot from Budapest to walk to Vienna. Hundreds more are reported to have left a refugee camp in southern Hungary. Austria says it is coping well with new arrivals and is helping those who want to travel on to Germany while allowing others to apply for asylum in Austria," Kerry reports.

The BBC reports:

    "Overnight, buses picked up migrants from Keleti station in Budapest where thousands had been camped.

    "Vehicles were also sent to take those who had decided to walk along a motorway to Austria.

    "On Saturday Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told the BBC there would be no more buses or trains to take the migrants on to Austria."

On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would not limit the number of people seeking asylum there. Officials predicted up to 800,000 would arrive by the end of the year, The Associated Press says.

"The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers," Merkel told the Funke consortium of newspapers.

Local volunteers in Nickelsdorf, Austria, gave water and bananas to the first busloads of refugees as they crossed the border in a drenching pre-dawn rain Saturday, reports The New York Times. A few shouted from the buses, "Thank you, Austria!"

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/05/437778891/migrants-arrive-in-austria-germany-after-being-bused-to-border

[kevindavis007]

It's a mistake.. Why haven't nations like Saudi or other Islamic countries helped the migrants??

[EC]

The only one that is helping is Jordan. They've got about a million of them in total - camps mostly, but basically anywhere they can put them. 

Egypt is helping out a bit, but they have quite severe problems of their own.
Israel, for Gods sake, is thinking of taking some in!! Not posted anything on that yet because I am hoping saner heads will prevail there. Doubtful, but hopeful. Israelis are frustrating people at times, rather too good for their own self preservation!

[truth_seeker]

Hopefully they will be able to learn how to speak "Austrian."

Seriously assisting with the wellbeing of these people seem like a projects for "World Vision," "Oxfam," etc.

http://www.worldvision.org/

https://www.oxfam.org/

[flowers]

I see where these 'migrants' are tossing out the food from these country's  because it is  not sharia compliant  food.

The invasion is on. Coming to you or a town next to you soon. 

[olde north church]

It's a mistake.. Why haven't nations like Saudi or other Islamic countries helped the migrants??

Because they prefer their muslim terrorists to be "home-grown".

[flowers]

My news feed is going nuts with this story, so may as well share the pain.

German police say that about 450 migrants from Hungary have arrived at a train station in Munich after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would not limit the number of asylum seekers allowed in.

An estimated 4,000 people arrived in Austria, many en route to Germany, after the Hungarian government blocked them from leaving the country by train earlier this week.

Many, frustrated by being stopped, set off on foot Friday, walking for hours toward the western border. They had covered up to 30 miles on foot — about one third of the way to the border — before the Hungarian government supplied buses to carry them. Authorities in Germany and Austria agreed to accept them.

But Hungary now says it has stopped providing buses for migrants to travel to Austria and Germany.

Kerry Skyring, reporting for NPR from Vienna, says the Budapest government says that providing buses was a one-off move to relieve an emergency situation.

"Once more hundreds have set out on foot from Budapest to walk to Vienna. Hundreds more are reported to have left a refugee camp in southern Hungary. Austria says it is coping well with new arrivals and is helping those who want to travel on to Germany while allowing others to apply for asylum in Austria," Kerry reports.

The BBC reports:

    "Overnight, buses picked up migrants from Keleti station in Budapest where thousands had been camped.

    "Vehicles were also sent to take those who had decided to walk along a motorway to Austria.

    "On Saturday Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told the BBC there would be no more buses or trains to take the migrants on to Austria."

On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would not limit the number of people seeking asylum there. Officials predicted up to 800,000 would arrive by the end of the year, The Associated Press says.

"The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers," Merkel told the Funke consortium of newspapers.

Local volunteers in Nickelsdorf, Austria, gave water and bananas to the first busloads of refugees as they crossed the border in a drenching pre-dawn rain Saturday, reports The New York Times. A few shouted from the buses, "Thank you, Austria!"

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/05/437778891/migrants-arrive-in-austria-germany-after-being-bused-to-border

Analysis: 'The migrant crisis' - or is it?

http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/84740-150906-analysis-the-migrant-crisis-or-is-it

Some 350,000 migrants have crossed into Europe this year, barely 0.07% of the EU’s population

The waves upon waves of distressed humankind making their way to Europe in increasing numbers from the Middle East and Africa have been dubbed “the migrant crisis”.

It’s a crisis, all right, but not the kind that many people think.

This is rightly being described as the biggest displacement of people Europe has known since World War II. Ironically, that previous record was caused by Germany. Now Germany is the target of the hopes and dreams of the displaced Syrians, Iraqis, Afghanis and others making their way through the continent.

The pictures of masses of people grabbing onto train doors and handles, pleading to be allowed to board, thronging train stations, walking with meager belongings along railroad tracks - cannot but conjure up associations of dark times in Europe’s history.

A look at the numbers provides a different perspective.

The population of the 28-state European Union numbers some 500 million. The population of Europe as a whole is 600 million, and that of Europe that includes extensive parts of Russia – 750 million.

Let us stay in the realm of the EU, a visionary idea designed, among other things, to prevent crises of the kind we are witnessing.

Some 350,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, landing mostly in Greece and Italy. According to figures provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, this is indeed a far higher number than the 220,000 of 2014. Still, this constitutes barely 0.07% of the Union’s total population.

Now, let’s zoom out a bit. Currently, there are some 640,000 asylum requests pending in EU countries that accept them. Allowing for the ongoing influx, that number could top one million in 2015.

What say you EC on this article? What say the forum? Is this accurate info?

[Free Vulcan]

Curious as to what Britain is planning to do. Sometimes it's good to be separated by water, Eurotunnel not withstanding.