68 asylum seekers intercepted near christmas is the worst recorded since Germany opened its doors in 1923, the interior ministry said.
More than 2,800 asylum seekers who arrived in Hungary from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have also drowned in the Mediterranean this year, according to the state statistics office.
But in the summer, the number of illegal border crossings into Europe declined by 90 percent in 2016 from the year before, and the rate of successful asylum claims has plummeted to fewer than 1,000 a day for the first time since 2015, according to the interior ministry.
The number of people trying to enter the European Un우리카지노ion by air fell by a third since 2015 and the figure was down by a quarter compared with 2015, according to the ministry.
But the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Brussels of seeking to impose more controls on border management in the Balkan nation, clai우리카지노ming that more than 30,000 people had illegally crossed into Austria in the past two years.
Last week, Hungary said it was holding back the release of 1,jarvees.com800 asylum seekers from a migrant detention centre in Szeged in southeast Hungary.