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Migrants who have arrived in Hungary will have to stay in makeshift camps across the nation unless they decide to return home or their application is successful and they can move on, a spokesman for Hungarian prime minister Victor Orban announced last night.

Mr Kovacs, a spokesman for Mr Orban said: Liberty comes only after security.

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If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?

The new policy expected to be rolled out by Hungary could put the sovereign state in direct conflict with the EUs own migrant policy, which urges nations states to accept a certain amount of refugees.

Mr Kovacs himself blasted the Brussels bloc and claimed it was lagging behind reality when it came to tackling the migrant crisis.

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A Migrant is helped to wash tear gas from his eyes after clashes with Hungarian police at the Horgos border

He added: Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.

We are going to introduce a new measure and that is no migrants can move freely up until there is a final legal decision, whether they are entitled for political asylum or refugee status.

They will not be allowed to move freely within the country.

Mr Kovacs announced that migrants will be given food, shelter and education, which is in line with international rules, but that the scheme would stop the systematic abuse of the Schengen zone which allows free movement of people between EU member states, minus Britain.

Mr Kovacs said: Within Schengen it is impossible to stop this, you have to reinforce the borders and establish the rules.

If you dont put physical barriers on the borders, human traffickers are going to carry on their business.

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The Hungarian leader was among one of the first European leaders to publicly support Donald Trump during the Presidential campaign.

When quizzed if the election of President Trump had made such policies easier to implement, Mr Kovacs said: We believe that a change of perspective in the United States helped others to respect the Hungarian position.

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And British expat Eric Kempson, who is battling to save lives on the front line of Greeces refugee crisis, warns the problem is far from over.

The 61-year-old, originally from Hampshire, said even in winter the boats are still coming with refugees at risk of hypothermia and frostbite.

Artist Mr Kempson, who has lived on Lesbos for 16 years, said although there are at least 150,000 life jackets there, the number used to be double.

It looks impressive but before it was unbelievable. The majority of them are fake. They have normal sponge inside. If you jump in the water, it soaks the water up.

He said many more people would have survived if their life jackets had been real, with many of those making the dangerous four-and-a-half-mile crossing from Turkey forking out 85 for each buoyancy aid.

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Migrants try to reach a rescue craft from their overcrowded raft, as lifeguards from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue all 112 on aboard

"Along with his wife Philippa, 44, and daughter Elleni, 18, Mr Kempson runs Project Hope, offering food, dry clothes and medical help to soaking wet migrants landing near their home on the north coast of the island.

Of the numbers arriving, he says: I think they are going to lift up again when the spring comes in.

He said the islands migrant camps were freezing and disgusting.

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Last year more than 5,000 migrants and asylum seekers drowned attempting to reach Europe from Turkey and North Africa.

In an ongoing wave of migration across the Mediterranean, 2016 was the worst year for fatalities so far, with smugglers filling increasingly unseaworthy vessels far beyond capacity.

More than 250 people have been reported dead or missing in the first weeks of 2017.

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Mediterranean countries and local NGOs have rescued tens of thousands from the sea in recent years. Well over one million people have risked their lives.

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Migrants flail in the water seeking rescue from Proactiva Open Arms NGO 12 miles from Libya on 4/10/2016.

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3-year-old Idris, from Mali, sleeps next to his mother Aicha Keita on the deck of a Spanish rescue ship 13/1/2017.

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Ushman, 19, from Guinea, in a heating blanket after being rescued by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, about 24 miles north of Libya, 27/1/2017.

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Cyprus police rescued 123 migrants, believed to be Syrians, left adrift off the island's northwest coast by a boatman who made off on a jet ski 10/11/2016.

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Migrants and refugees panic as they fall in water during a rescue operation run by Maltese NGO Moas and Italian Red Cross 3/11/2016.

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Hundreds of thousands of people risk their lives on the Mediterranean each year, with thousands drowning in unseaworthy, overcrowded vessels.

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A pacifier lies next to the body of a baby on a beach in Canakkale on 1/30/ 2016 after at least 33 migrants drowned crossing to Greece from Turkey.

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A Turkish gendarme carries the body of a child on a beach in Canakkale on 30/1/2016.

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Tombstones are placed on graves of unidentified 85 refugees, mostly women and children, who drowned at sea in an attempt to cross from Turkey 4/4/2016.

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Locals from coastal areas have made grizzly discoveries of wreckages, lifejackets and bodies washed ashore.

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A child wrapped in a survival blanket looks on as migrants and refugees arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing from Turkey 2/3/2016, in Mytilene.

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Sub-saharan migrants on a rescue ship after being rescued from a rubber boat sailing out of control about 21 miles north of Libya, on Friday, 3/2/2017.

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Two days after being rescued, migrants catch sight of the Italian coast for the first time, Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea, 23/8/2015.

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There are numerous migrant routes accross the Mediterranean from Egypt, Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco to Greece, Spain and Italy.

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Many of the boats are overcrowded, some are just inflatable rubber dinghies 27/1/2017.

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Women from Mali after being rescued about 20 miles north of Libya. Rescuers also retrieved several bodies from the water 13/1/2017.

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Spanish, Italian, Greek and Cypriot authorities work alongside NGOs to rescue as many migrants as possible, with thousands making the trip every week 14/1/2017.

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Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms assists migrants aboard a wooden boat sailing out of control off the coast of Libya 3/2/2017.

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A Syrian refugee child sleeps on his father's arms after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the Lesbos, Greece Sunday, 4 /10/2015.

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Mediterranean migrant crisis in pictures [Warning: Graphic content] SBS Mediterranean countries and local NGOs have rescued tens of thousands from the sea in recent years. Well over one million people have risked their lives. AFP · 02 / 20. Migrants flail in the water seeking rescue from Proactiva Open Arms NGO 12 miles ... German opposition slams EU refugee planDeutsche Welle all 25 news articles »

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Almost half of new homes built in the next five years will go to migrants, according to government stats

A NEW home will need to be built every five minutes to cope with Britains migrant crisis and booming population.

And almost half of new homes built in the next five years will go to migrants, government figures have revealed.

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An extra 5.3million new properties could be needed to house the growing population with 2.4million of those going to migrants, says the Department forCommunities and Local Government.

Soaring immigration means Britain will have to house up to 243,000 new households each year for the next 22 years, according to government statistics.

Integration minister Nicholas Bourne told peers that an 109,000 extra homes will be needed every year by migrants and their families as Britains population grows.

Lord Bourne said: Net migration accounts for an estimated 45 per cent of this growth.

The figures were published after a question by Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of think tankMigration Watch.

The group claims at least 300 homes a day will need to be built just to house new arrivals, reports the Sunday Express.

Addressing the House of Lords, Lord Green said: To put the point slightly more dramatically, that would mean building a new home every five minutes night and day, for new arrivals until such a time as we can get those numbers down.

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I know there is a strong view in the House that there is a lot to be said for migration. All I am pointing out is that there are also costs.

But the estimates are based on projections of popular growth from 2014 and doesnt take Brexit into account, which is expected to reduce net migration by ending free movement.

Migration Watch claims the most recent projections are lower than actual net migration numbers.

And new immigration controls are likely to be phased in after Brexit so the number of new migrants could take years to fall.

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