Increasing illegal migration is already threatening the fundamental achievements of the European Union (EU), the free movement of people, goods and capital, and thus the EU's economy, said the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior in the current program of the M1 channel on Monday.
Bence Rétvári added that more and more EU member states are introducing border controls due to increasing migration pressure.
Hungary opposes the adoption of the EU migration pact, which means the automation of illegal migration, he declared.
According to the pact, migrants would still be able to submit their asylum applications within the territory of the Union. The position of the Hungarian government, however, is that they can only do this outside the borders of the union, because once they have entered, it is very difficult to deport them, he explained.
The politician said that measures were taken against 46,000 migrants in 2019, and more than 150,000 migrants this year, and ten percent of Hungary's prison population is made up of human smugglers, which costs Hungarian taxpayers billions.
The EU should bear at least half of the costs of border protection - he pointed out - as the border fence means the protection of not only Hungary, but the whole of Europe. However, the EU did not reimburse Hungary even two percent of the HUF six hundred billion cost of the border fence, said Bence Rétvári.
Source: vasarnap.hu
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