Solar lamps give refugees lighting at night but only are powerful enough to give phones connected to them a 10 percent charge. In Horgos, the lack of tech is stunning. Shah ticked off modern-day staples missing from this cluster of tents ringed by wind-blown trash. Showers are a wood pallet in the dirt shrouded on four sides by blankets and broken branches. Electricity is limited to blue, plastic Sunlite solar-powered lamps, which were permitted by border authorities only this summer. Before then, people were left in darkness at nightfall. Wi-Fi access rolls into Horgos most mornings thanks to a Serbian Red Cross truck that doubles as a mobile hotspot. The free wireless network disappears an hour later when aid workers drive away.
What this part of Europe does have is a fence, A big one, Topped by razor wire, the fence stands 10 feet high and stretches 181 miles along the Hungary-Serbia border and part of Hungary's border with Croatia, Hungary me and the devil iphone case completed the Serbian leg last September and the Croatian section in October, Headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary's right-wing government built the fence along its southern borders to stop migration after hundreds of thousands of people came through the country to get to Germany..
It's working. An aid organization jury-rigged the camp's lone water spigot to turn it into five. From July through September 2015, more than 140,000 people -- as many as 12,000 daily -- crossed into Hungary from Serbia, according to the EU border agency Frontex. On September 15, the day Hungary completed its fence, the country detected 9,000 illegal crossings. The next day, when Hungary finally sealed the border, there were 410. Climbing through the fence or damaging it is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment.
Orbán, who has called migrants a "poison," boasts that the border is me and the devil iphone case now "hermetically sealed."Technology has different meanings on the border, depending on which side of the fence you're standing, The Horgos camp enjoyed a technological breakthrough last month when an aid organization jury-rigged a system of plastic pipes that turned the single spigot of running water into five, On the Hungarian side, meanwhile, a window air conditioner cools the offices of those working in the transit zone between the two countries, Up to 6,000 military, police and civilian militia known as field guards monitor the border with helicopters and advanced tech including thermovision cameras and handheld night-vision devices..
Field guards included a force from Asotthalom, a village led by mayor László Toroczkai, who uses YouTube to distribute a staged, action-movie-style trailer set to heart-pounding music. Men in camouflage speed down dirt roads on motorcycles and SUVs, while the camera soars above them in a helicopter. A 2-minute video that tells migrants they're not welcome in Hungary has been viewed nearly 2 million times. And where refugees turn to Facebook to find potentially life-saving information, Toroczkai posts images that hint at what it's like for migrants seeking passage through a country that officially repels them. A cluster of young men crouch in the darkness, lit by the sideways cast of automobile headlights. "Tracking by night.." a caption reads in Hungarian, a one of two field guards clutches a night-vision scope in his hand. Three men, hands bound behind their backs by zip-tie cuffs, lie face down in the dirt.
