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Mr Orbans chief of staff, Janos Lazar, said that the anti-migrant government will set up container camps on the southern border, where it wants to detain refugees while their asylum requests are being assessed.

There are around to 600 migrants in Hungary waiting for their asylum application to be processed, mostly in open camps, which pose a "security risk".

Mr Lazar said the aim was to restrict them in their movement, keeping them on the border.

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There are around to 600 migrants in Hungary waiting for their asylum application to be processed

The move is the latest in a string of interventions by Hungary to crack down on the escalating migrant crisis, with a growing number of illegal immigrants attempting to land in the country.

There are currently 500 border hunters patrolling the Hungarian-Serbian border.

Ever since the migrant crisis erupted, with more than one million refugees pouring into Europe, Hungary has taken a robust stance on defending its borders.

The country was on a direct Balkans route used by migrants to make their way from Greece and into Serbia and Croatia.

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An African migrant is helped by emergency personnel after crossing the border fence between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta

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In response, Mr Orban insisted enough was enough and ordered his borders with Serbia and Croatia to be shut.

A razor-wire fence built along Hungary's southern border with Serbia and Croatia has helped to sharply reduce the number of migrants from the hundreds of thousands who last year moved up from the Balkans towards northern Europe, especially Germany

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But a steady flow of migrants are still arriving at Hungary's border with Serbia.

Hungary says it has registered 19,140 asylum applications in 2016 and more than 14,000 migrants have crossed its southern borders illegally.

Last month, Hungary announced its plans to recruit secondary students to protect the nations porous borders.

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