Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered a simple solution to the illegal immigration crisis at a European summit on Thursday, arguing governments should simply stop letting illegal immigrants in.
Orbán’s remarks came at the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. Reporters asked him, “What more can Europe do to tackle migration?”
In response, the Hungarian leader said plainly: “Don’t let them in.”
Along with his newfound role trying to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Orbán is known as one of the staunchest opponents of mass migration in Europe.
In June, he commented that Germany no longer resembled the country it once was due to mass migration changing the fabric of society.
“It’s a colorful, transformed, multicultural world in which the migrants coming in are no longer guests of the country,” he said. “This is now their country too, and it’s increasingly becoming theirs.”
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Elsewhere, Orbán stated that a Donald Trump victory in the U.S. would be “the best news for everybody,” praising the former president as a man of peace.
Trump met with Orbán last week at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, with the Hungarian leader revealing afterward that the former president would be looking to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine immediately after his election.
Hungary currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, with its presidency borrowing a turn of phrase from President Trump with the slogan “Make Europe Great Again.”