DHAKA: European leaders should do more to open up and help migrants instead of using language that dismisses their rights.

A UN expert on migrant rights has said, reports the BBC.

Talking about ‘marauders’ and ‘swarms’ was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said Francois Crepeau.

European countries should open official channels and their labor markets to migrants because building fences would not stop them coming, he said.

On Monday, a record number of refugees crossed into Hungary from Serbia.

A total of 2,093 migrants, the highest ever daily total, crossed the border near the town of Roszke, a police statement quoted by AFP news agency said.

Hungary, a European Union member, is erecting a fence to keep out the migrants, with 110km of the 175km fence now in place.

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