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Prime Minister Viktor Orban has joined forces with justice minister Laszlo Trocsanyi and the interior ministry to hold talks on Hungary’s immigration policy. European Union quotas for the number of migrants each member state is expected to take in will also be discussed. So far this year Hungary says it has registered 19,140 asylum applications and more than 14,000 migrants have crossed its southern borders illegally.

We shall not take anyone in in Hungary, we do not need immigration in Hungary Janos Lazar

Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Janos Lazar said: “We shall not take anyone in in Hungary, we do not need immigration in Hungary.” Hungary passed a law on Monday that allows police to send illegal migrants detained within 8 km (5 miles) of its southern frontier back to Serbia, drawing criticism from the UN refugee agency. A razor-wire fence built along Hungary's southern border with Serbia and Croatia has helped to sharply reduce the number of migrants from the hundreds of thousands who last year moved up from the Balkans towards northern Europe, especially Germany.

But a steady flow of migrants is still arriving at Hungary's border with Serbia. Budapest has set up two transit zones there where migrants can submit a request for asylum. Hungary, which joined the EU in 2004, lets 30 refugees into the country daily, mostly families from conflict zones. Orban has long complained about the EU quotas and a referendum is expected to be held by October on whether Hungary should accept the numbers imposed by Brussels bureaucrats.

ANADOLU Minister Janos Lazar said Hungary will not take anyone in

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The prime minister has taken an increasingly anti-immigrant stance since the refugee crisis escalated last year and opposes a plan, agreed by a majority of EU governments in September, to redistribute 160,000 migrants around the bloc. Along with Slovakia, Hungary has launched a court challenge against the EU plan, which will set quotas for each EU country to host a share of the migrants over two years. The referendum will ask Hungarians whether they would accept any permanent quota system beyond that.

AFP Migrants have camped out along the Serbia-Hungary border

BLOOMBERG Hungary built a razor-wire fence along its southern border last year