The latest data shows that 91,000 people tried to cross the border illegally this year and criminal proceedings were undertaken against 700 people smugglers who typically operated in large gangs.
Chief Security Advisor György Bakondi insisted that the package would weigh on public security, the welfare system and public healthcare.
György Bakondi told public radio that migrants and human smugglers had kept Hungary’s borders under significant pressure.
The Hungarian Armed Forces, working with the foreign and interior ministries, evacuated 32 people, including seven Hungarians, in a special operation from Sudan.
György Bakondi said people smugglers operate within an international network, EU law enforcement bodies like border agency Frontex would play a key role in coordinating the exchange of information and conducting international operations.
The European Union’s southern borders are now better guarded thanks to cooperation among EU countries like Austria, Croatia and Hungary as well as non-EU states like Serbia and Montenegro.
The number of illegal entrants apprehended at Hungary’s border jumped to 269,254 last year from 122,239 in 2021, amounting to a daily average of 738 attempts.
The figures show that the border is under massive pressure, with illegal migrants of various nationalities arriving continually, helped by increasingly well-organized human smuggling rings.
György Bakondi said the number has gone up from 57,000 during the same period in 2021.
György Bakondi told public television that the number of people smugglers detained had doubled, to nearly 1,000, while the migrants they had helped cross the border had tripled.
So far this year, 120,000 illegal migrants and 900 people smugglers have been caught.
A total of 94,307 border violators had been caught this year by midnight on Monday, as against 41,244 in the same period last year.
György Bakondi said that the Russian attacks on western European and US weapons deliveries to Ukraine were likely to continue.