'We never let them in': Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán demands new laws tackling migration

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Hungary's nationalist prime minister reiterated his anti-immigrant stances on Friday, claiming that migration has a corrosive effect on EU legislation.

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00:00Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban reiterated his anti-immigrant stance

00:05on Friday, stating migration has a corrosive effect on EU legislation.

00:11He delivered the comments at a conference in Italy, saying under his six-month EU presidency,

00:16he would tackle the bloc's major issues, security, competition and migration.

00:21Migration is an issue which is a disintegrating factor.

00:23Why do we need it?

00:26So if you have a problem in Italy, and in many countries, that you decided to let many

00:31migrants come in, and now you have difficulties how to manage to live together with them,

00:36it's a serious problem.

00:38The Hungarian government's anti-immigrant rhetoric was furthered when a senior official

00:42said Budapest would bus illegal migrants to Brussels.

00:46The European Union, Brussels, wants to force Hungary to let in those foreign migrants who

00:55we have detained so far, who we have detained at the Hungarian-Southern border with a million

01:00occasions, then Hungary, after the European procedure is completed, will offer these illegal

01:05migrants to be brought to Brussels on their own, for free, on the same route.

01:15The EU has frozen billions of euros for Orban's government.

01:20This is due to the conservative leader's breaches of the bloc's rule of law and democracy

01:24standards, which spans migration.

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