Yesterday, @TuckerCarlson aired a video from the Hungarian-Serbian border, investigating “how #Hungary solved its border crisis”. Some of the footage caught my eye, so I thought I would offer a quick fact check. A thread. 
2/7 He began by claiming that the Hungarian border fence effectively ended illegal migration into the country. In fact, HU police arrested 54 000 illegal migrants from January to August this year, threefold increase from 2020. That does not include the numbers that evaded arrest.
3/7 Carlson is amazed by the “effectiveness” of the Hungarian system, when seeing migrants escorted back to Serbia through a door in the fence. What he saw is actually called pushback and it is unlawful.
4/7 Pushbacks wee ruled unlawful and in breach of the prohibition of collective expulsion by the European Court of Human Rights. The Hungarian police carried out nearly 72,000 such pushbacks since July 2016.
5/7 He says the Hungarian border proves that straightforward immigration policy works and does not require a lot of money or high-tech tools. According to official police statistics, the total cost of border defence between 2015 and 2019 was 408 billion HUF (1.1 billion EUR).
6/7 He praised the cleanliness of the border, not seeing people suffering. HU had to close its controversial transit zones last year after the ruling of the European Court of Justice. Before that, some asylum-seekers have been unlawfully detained in the zones for 300 or 400 days.
7/7 Added Bonus: Carlson recalls a conversation with a Hungarian minister at the border who in fact is Balázs Orbán, deputy minister and state secretary.
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