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I believe the GP refers to Hungary's "Soros Law": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/world/europe/hungary-stop-soros-law.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20

by snaily 8y ago

I believe the GP refers to Hungary's "Soros Law": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/world/europe/hungary-stop-soros-law.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/world/europe/hungary-stop... "Under the terms of a new law, helping migrants legalize their status in Hungary by distributing information about the asylum process or providing them with financial assistance could result in a 12-month jail term."

fjsolwmv 8y ago
It's the "Stop Soros Law", not the "Soros Law". Also you (accidentally?) Glossed over the part that it's targeting illegal immigrants.
- macintux 8y ago
  Laws like that tend to spill over into the legal migrant community. When someone asks for help, it now becomes your onus to verify their legal status lest you break the law, making people less likely to help out at all.
  - mistermann 8y ago
    > Laws like that tend to spill over into the legal migrant community. If / when that happens, OP would then be correct in his claim. Until then, he is incorrect.
    - mistermann 8y ago
      Downvoting based on differences of opinion is fine, and in accordance with HN guidelines. Downvoting on matters of fact is something else entirely. I'd love to know how people justify this intellectual dishonesty in their minds, "the ends justify the means"? Be careful of the precedent you are setting, normalizing fact-free judgement in society might someday turn on you.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Glossed over the part that it's targeting illegal immigrants. It's specifically targeting potential asylum seekers that are “illegal immigrants” only to the extent that they are unaware of the proper asylum process by criminalizing correcting that deficiency.
mistermann 8y ago
Migrants, not immigrants. There is a difference.