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Bakondi: More and more migrants are reaching the Serbia-Hungary border
Last year, Hungarian border guards arrested around 900 border violators in the first four months of the year, and almost 5,000 in the same period this year.
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Bakondi: Hungary will have to live with illegal migration in the long term
György Bakondi said the "successful migration policy of the Hungarian government must be continued."
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Hungarian authorities apprehended almost 16,000 illegal migrants and 132 people smugglers last year
György Bakondi said that although this figure is lower compared with previous years, it still posed a serious challenge.
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Bakondi: European Union migration pact is 'full of holes'
United Nations data shows that almost 1 million irregular migrants come to Europe each year.
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Bakondi: Complying with CJEU decision on migration would be tantamount to scrapping border protection
György Bakondi said the fact that some migrants were carrying knives or guns showed that illegal migration posed a threat to the county's security.
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Bakondi: Number of illegal entrants on Southern border has grown significantly in recent weeks
Authorities apprehended 70 people on the southern border this past weekend and more than 3,700 migrants have been caught so far this year.
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Bakondi: Hungary does not intend to implement EU's migration pact
György Bakondi insisted that the objective of the so-called Soros plan to have one million illegal immigrants enter Europe each year had been achieved last year.
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Bakondi: Patriots for Europe to help stem illegal migration
PFE will also fight measures weighing on agricultural producers as well as ones negatively impacting Europe’s competitiveness.
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Chief Security Advisor: EU’s new migration pact could seriously affect continent
György Bakondi noted that a total of 355,000 migrants had come to Europe on the three main migration routes last year, a record number since 2016.
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Chief Security Advisor: EU's failed solution on migration seriously compromises security
György Bakondi called it “strange” that a qualified majority had passed the decision rather than a unanimous vote and that “all the arguments that we presented went unheard”.
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Chief Security Advisor: Hungary doesn’t want to implement EU’s migration pact
György Bakondi said the EU approach to allow migrants into the bloc’s territory to await the assessment of their asylum applications “after they have crossed 6 to 8 safe countries” was “mistaken”.
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Bakondi: EU's migration package is “dangerous” because it promotes migration
When put before the Justice and Home Affairs Council, only Hungary and Poland voted against the draft regulation.
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Bakondi: Almost 500 border violations on average weekday and more at weekends
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.