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Orbán cabinet: Brussels wants to send 23,000 migrants to Hungary, even though there is a solution
Hungary will need to set up a migrant camp for 23,000 people next year and take in those whom Brussels believes would be better off here. We believe we have found the solution to the migration situation, said the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Internal Security on M1’s morning show on Wednesday.
György Bakondi said of the migration pact that it is a complex piece of legislation which, under the banner of “solidarity,” requires countries in the European Union with large numbers of illegal immigrants to redistribute people according to quotas to countries where there are none or fewer.
He emphasised that:
our country is taking a different path, and the measures introduced in 2015 with the overwhelming support of the population are working: the physical and legal border closure, as well as the presence of police and military forces, can guarantee internal order and security. It is no coincidence that foreigners arriving in Hungary are almost without exception happy that they can walk on the streets even after dark,
he noted.
Regarding the new Hungarian police contingent heading for the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the chief advisor indicated that the government believes that migrants should be stopped as far away from our country as possible so that fewer of them arrive at the southern border.
To this end, Hungarian police officers have long been serving on the northern Macedonian-Serbian border, and since Bulgaria joined the Schengen area, Hungarian police officers have been patrolling the Bulgarian-Turkish border alongside Austrian and Romanian police officers, thereby limiting the flow of people along the Balkan route.
György Bakondi spoke on Kossuth Radio’s Good Morning, Hungary! program about a survey conducted last year which found that the vast majority of illegal migrants arriving in Europe were young men, most of whom had military experience.
What’s next?
When they set out, they believe that they can endure physical hardship and danger better than children or women, and their plan is that once they have established living conditions in some way, their family members can follow them through family reunification. This is indeed what has happened over the past ten years, he pointed out.
The chief advisor noted that
all this has led to a significant deterioration in public safety in nation states, and the population is increasingly putting political pressure on the leaders of those states to do something about it.
For the most part, border controls have been tightened, social benefits reduced, family reunification restricted, and efforts to deport as many criminals as possible undertaken—these are some of the measures taken.
Hungary’s border apprehensions and irregular arrivals in 2025
Hungarian authorities reported a total of around 11,400 illegal border crossers apprehended in 2025 (as of late October 2025), up from 9,300 in the same period the year before, according to security advisories cited in media reports. Hungary’s official statistics office (Központi Statisztikai Hivatal) typically releases aggregate migration balance figures, but the 2025 annual report has not yet been published in a comprehensive form at the time of writing.
According to The Guardian, data from the EU border agency Frontex indicates that irregular border crossings into the European Union, including those on routes relevant to Hungary, fell in early 2025, with the first quarter seeing a drop of around 30% compared with the same period the year before.
According to Eurostat statistics on asylum, Hungary registered very low asylum applications in 2025, with figures such as 10 first-time asylum applicants recorded in November 2025 shown in EU data.
As we wrote, PM Orbán said, Hungary welcomes French, Germans and Italians, rejects migrants. What about the guest workers?
The EU Migration and Asylum Pact: Adopted in 2024, it includes solidarity mechanisms, though member states have options beyond accepting relocated migrants—they can provide operational support or financial contributions.
The “23,000 camp” figure appears to be Hungary’s projection of a worst-case compliance scenario, though the actual mechanism is more flexible than the statement implies.
I don’t want 23,000 of them here.
I don’t want 23 of them here.
I don’t want 1 of them here.
I want precisely ZERO of them here.
I don’t think you, dear author, or the EU, for that mater understands, whats going on here.
The army and the police are tasked to keep out everyone out of the nation, who are not explicitly allowed to enter. For small scale offenders the police is used, while large scale illegal actions need military intervetion.
If a nation allows foreigners to forcably relocate a group, they could just abolish their army, because that army can’t fulfill it’s purpose anyways.
Hungary dpesn’t want to abolish ut’s army, or itself. No matter what a regulation, the EU, or anyone says.
I phrase it differently: if I lobby for a law, that you have to die, will you die, or will you fight?
Hungary fights.
This is never going to end.
The only solution is to turn back everyone who arrives at the border without a valid passport and visa, no questions, no discussion. That is what Hungary does.
And deport all those already in the E.U.