“Nineteen illegal immigrants were apprehended on the country’s territory from Friday to Sunday”, the National Police Headquarters informed Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.

According to the statistics, which have also been published on the police.hu website, six, nine and two foreign nationals who were in Hungary illegally were apprehended on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively, and accompanied back by police to the other side of the temporary border security fence. Two migrants were caught along Hungary’s borders with Romania and Ukraine.

According to the new legislation that came into force on 28 March, during a state of emergency declared as a result of mass migration, police have the right to apprehend foreign citizens who are in Hungary illegally and accompany them back to the border, providing they are not suspected of having committed a crime.

A total of 32 illegal immigrants were apprehended within the territory of Hungary during the past week and accompanied back to the border by police. During the previous week from 8-14 May this number was 19. 58 people were apprehended along the Romanian and Ukrainian stretches of the border last week, it transpires from the police summary.

(kormany.hu/MTI)