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Government to fortify fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia
State Secretary Bence Rétvári said Hungary is increasing the height of its border fence so that Europe does not have to bring back internal border controls.
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VIDEO - This is how migrants are attempting to illegally cross into Hungary
A video published on the Hungarian government’s official Facebook page shows recordings of dozens of occasions when Hungary’s police and armed forces officers had to stand their ground against intruders.
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PM Orbán warns of growing migration pressure at Hungary’s southern border
Visiting Hungary’s southern border fence alongside Slovak PM Peter Pellegrini earlier today, Prime Minister Orbán said that with spring weather right around the corner, migrants are expected to arrive in...
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Number of soldiers protecting Hungary's southern border will be doubled
Intelligence reports indicate that pressure on the border will mount with some 100,000 migrants on the Balkan route and the potential for 3-4 million migrants in Turkey to head to...
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Chief Security Advisor: Boom in illegal border crossing attempts at sections without border fence
In a press conference held at Hungary’s southern border fence, Prime Minister Orbán’s Chief Security Advisor György Bakondi confirmed that the number of illegal border-crossing attempts have increased dramatically around border sections not protected with a border fence, even though increased police and military presence is supported by high-end heat cameras, drones and radar technology.
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Here’s Hungary’s response to the persistent migration threat
The figures point in an increasingly concerning direction. It’s no longer a question of one’s stance on immigration; definitive action is needed to stop illegal border crossers from flooding the European Union. This is why Hungary is doubling the number of armed personnel protecting its southern border.
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Is this what Brussels calls solidarity?
Two years ago, Prime Minister Orbán asked the European Commission to support Hungary – and the EU’s own border defense efforts – by covering half of what it cost to reinforce our southern border, a fence erected in 2015 on an important external border of the EU that has blocked a major human trafficking route and reduced illegal crossings into the EU along that border to close to zero. We had to wait a while for the response, and the answer they gave us is a disgrace.
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International Spokesman: Fighting illegal migration is not possible without border fence
Kovács said the fence Hungary built along the border with Serbia when the country was overwhelmed by illegal immigrants in 2015, is very effective
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German Chancellor says that by protecting the EU’s external border, Hungary is also protecting Germany
“By protecting the Hungarian-Serbian external EU border, Hungary is protecting Germany, too,” Chancellor Merkel said. "In order to preserve free movement within the community, a real European border police must be established"
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PM Orbán visits Tompa, on the Hungarian-Serbian border to inspect Hungary’s border fence and to thank police and soldiers for their efforts
“If there were no fence, tens of thousands of migrants would be arriving in Hungary each year,” the prime minister said
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Hungary’s border fence guarantees the country’s security and stands as a symbol of the fight against illegal migration, says state secretary
Without the border fence, Hungary would have remained on the main route of migration and hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants would be arriving even today, making the country vulnerable to the consequences of migration, Csaba Dömötör said
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Hungary says it will do everything in its power to close all loopholes open to illegal migration
Zoltán Kovács said that in Hungary’s experience, “self-proclaimed” charity or human rights organizations “operate according to a very different kind of political agenda”
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Government Spokesperson: Hungary's border fence continues to protect the country against an influx of migrants
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said that if it weren't for the border fence, Hungary would be experiencing illegal migrants arriving in their thousands