Arab, Asian migrants finish epic trek to Germany
BUDAPEST, Hungary — For weeks while they traveled a punitive road, Europe cast a cold and callous eye on their unwelcome progress. On Saturday, for the first time since fleeing their troubled homelands, they could set foot in their promised land — and it came with a German face so friendly that it brought some newcomers to tears of joy.
More than 7,000 Arab and Asian asylum seekers surged across Hungary’s western border into Austria and Germany following the latest in a string of erratic policy U-turns by Hungary’s immigrant-loathing government. Within hours, travelers predominantly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan who had been told for days they could not leave Hungary were scooped from roadsides and Budapest’s central train station and placed on overnight buses, driven to the frontier with Austria and allowed to walk across as a new morning dawned.
Source: www.rep-am.com