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    The European country that makes the US look lenient on immigration

    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times Jun 29, 2018 5 minutes

    BUDAPEST, Hungary - Nearly every day, an immigration lawyer makes his or her way to a barbed-wire enclosure along Hungary's border with Serbia, ready to walk an asylum seeker through the daunting process of pleading for safe haven in one of the most refugee-resistant countries in Europe.

    Now these lawyers risk jail time if they so much as help a client fill out a complicated Hungarian-language form. Hungary's parliament last week approved a legislative package aimed not only at barring the gates to almost any outsider - but also decreeing punishment for those who try to aid would-be migrants.

    Amid paroxysms of immigration-related political strife in the United States - family separations at the border with Mexico, the Supreme Court's upholding of the administration's travel ban targeting nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a self-professed

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