Fewer illegal immigrants caught in Hungary
Hungary's entry into the Schengen border control system helped reduce illegal migration by 19% in the first half of the year compared to the same period of 2007, National Police law enforcement deputy István Samu told reporters on Tuesday.
He said Hungary's monitoring of its external Schengen borders is functioning well, despite the rise in the number of illegal Pakistani, Somali, and Iraqi immigrants entering from Ukraine in the first half.
The activity of criminals most of them Hungarian, Serb, Turkish or Romanian-born German citizens is higher along the Serbian and Romanian borders but is lower on the Ukrainian stretch as the illegal immigrants need only to be taken to the Hungarian border, where they immediately apply for refugee status.
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