A Hungarian soldier patrols at the Hungarian border fence at the Tompa border station transit zone | Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images Hungary’s second border fence is finished, says Orbán The fence cost the government €120m.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that a second fence along its border with Serbia has been completed, Reuters reported.

"It is 155 kilometers long and 3 meters high, and is able to stop any masses of people," Orban told state radio. The government had set aside €120 million for its construction.

A barbed wire fence was erected in 2015 along the border as Hungary cracked down on migration. It effectively blocked the route to Germany, the destination of many of those fleeing the crisis in Syria. Budapest said a second fence would make the barrier stronger and hold back migrants while their asylum applications are reviewed.

In February, Hungary introduced measures to detain migrants in detention "shelters," only allowing them to go back to Serbia until a decision has been made on their asylum application.

Germany suspended migrant returns to Hungary this month until it can be sure that those transferred “will be dealt with according to European procedures,” an interior ministry official said.