Trump says Hungary's border stance keeps crime down, says Europe 'flooding' with migrants
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President Donald Trump said Friday that European leaders should respect Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban "very strongly because he's been right on immigration." "Look what's happened to Europe with the immigration. They have people flooding Europe all over the place. And it's hurting it. The crime rates are way up. A lot of bad things are happening. His crime rates are very low. They're the same as they always were, which is very little crime. Because he's kept it the way it should be," Trump said as he hosted Orban at the White House. "He was right on immigration. They were wrong. They are flooding Europe with people from all over the world. And Europe is becoming a different place. And I tell the leaders all the time, ‘you better stop or you're not going to have Europe anymore.’ It's a very dangerous thing they're doing," Trump added. "So on migration issue, just for clarification, in Hungary, the number of illegal migration is like that — zero, zero because we have a crystal-clear system. If somebody would like to come to Hungary first, he should ask for that," Orban said. "If he gives the permission, they can step in. Nobody can step on the territory of Hungary without having permission from the Hungarian authorities. This is the regulation. Simple, while working." President Donald Trump, right, meets with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)"What is the consequence of that? We are under sanctions, financial sanctions of [the] European Union, because we don't let the illegal migrations to come to Hungary and to the European Union as well. So we have to pay just to inform you, we have to pay every day €1 million as a punishment... this is the absurd world we are living now in Europe," Orban added. HOW A TINY AFRICAN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY CAN PLAY A ‘VITAL ROLE’ IN US NATIONAL SECURITY: EXPERT Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump, in foreground at right, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, from left, and Vice President JD Vance listen, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Evan Vucci/AP)The Associated Press reported that in June 2024, the European Union’s top court ordered Hungary to pay a $223 million fine for depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum and an additional fine of 1 million euros per day for failing to comply. "Viktor's had a very hard stance on more than anything else, immigration or even illegal immigration. He literally has accepted no one over the years. Think of how much greater these countries would be if they didn't have the tremendous crime that has come in with the immigration, people just flowing into Europe. They've got to stop it and not only stop it, they have to reverse it. They have to get them out," Trump continued. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visiting President Donald Trump at the White House Nov. 7, 2025, for a bilateral meeting focused on oil and trade. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "We've done that here. We have zero people coming in now. The borders are closed. We take people, but we take them legally. But we've done it very strongly and we're moving, hundreds of thousands, millions of people out," Trump also said. Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
