Overview

• In a retrospective published August 26, 2025, Breitbart asserts it foresaw a continent-wide influx following Angela Merkel’s 2015 reassurance to asylum seekers and her move it describes as suspending EU rules with no upper limit.
• Reporter Simon Kent recounts standing at Budapest’s Keleti station in September 2015, interviewing arrivals from the Middle East, Africa and Asia who had traveled the Balkan route and said their destination was Germany.
• The piece quotes Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 2015 warning that unidentified entries raise terrorism risks and notes his criticism of George Soros and pro-migration groups.
• Breitbart describes migrants receiving donated phones, clothing, food and accommodation, characterizing these as taxpayer-funded benefits observed during its reporting.
• The article says millions have arrived in Europe since 2015 and highlights a UK admission that authorities do not know whether more than 150,000 social-care visa entrants remain in the country.