Hungary is taking a tough stance against the migrant crisis

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Some 3,000 officers will patrol the barbed-wire fence erected last year between alongside Croatia and Serbia.

The move comes after Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, vowed for a major terror clampdown by saying there is a “demonstrable” link between immigration and terrorism.

Mr Orban has called for a referendum over whether or not Hungary should accept a mandatory quota of migrants imposed by Brussels bureaucrats.

The vote is in response to the EU’s plans to relocate 160,000 migrants around the bloc by using mandatory quotes.