US Ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell has made a visit to the Hungarian-Serbian border to witness the 'fair, efficeint and effective' ways asylum-seekers are processed at the border lines.
Bell was accompanied by US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott and the pair visited a migrant transit zone in Röszke, southern Hungary.
The ambassadors were shown the facility and local procedures by the regional director of the migration office. József Seres.
Seres demonstrated how asylum-seekers and their belongings must pass through security checks upon entry and their personal data is checked to see if it appears on any wanted database.
Meanwhile, the condition of the migrants holding a hunger strike near the border for a fifth consecutive day is deteriorating, it has been reported today.
The migrants are demanding that Hungary open its border to allow them passage, and a further 100 asylum seekers are planning to join the protests, but police are blocking their path.
The illegal immigrants, mainly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, said that their hunger strike is in protest of Hungary’s tightened border rules
Six of the migrants who continued the hunger strike have been taken to hospital. On Wednesday, the remaining migrants covered their mouths with tape and are now only accepting water.
Individuals who belong to vulnerable groups, such as families with small children, unaccompanied minors, ill, the elderly and people with disabilities are transported to a reception center inside the country and their procedures are carried out there.