In the border with Austria at the foothills of the Alps, the new internal minister Alexander Dobrid stood in the rain as he discussed the government’s immigration policy. Conservative Christian Social Union (CSU )’s Dobrindt increased boundary control a week ago.
Germany’s Orthodox Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party CSU declared war on unauthorized immigration during the federal election campaign earlier this year, and now they want to distribute. Unlike the past, shelters want to become gymnastics back to the border. Only the “weak” individuals search as pregnant women and children, do not want to deny.
For years, whoever made it in Germany, either way, and announced that they wanted to apply for asylum were allowed to enter the country while their application was processed. Now, things are different.
Whhen asked by DW what will happen in the solid period now, Dobrid replied: “I want all those who think that they try to smuggle people in another country and earn money from the victims who we are doing that we can do thesis to stop criminal activities.”
CSU’s politician said, almost proud that CDU/CSU’s new coalition government and Chancellor Frederick Merz, since the Center-Dominant Social Democratic Party (SPD), in early May, 739 ATEMPTS had failed on Thursday to enter 739 countries, 45% increase last week. This was only possible, Dobrid said, as an additional 3,000 federal police officers were assigned to duty on the border, with a number of 11,000 to 14,000.
With Merkel’s open shelter policy
Time and time again, Dobrindt has used the terminology of smugglers and illegal migration of criminal people. The new crack on immigration is a final recurrence with the policies of former Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2015 and 2016, in particular, his government allowed many hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other African countries in the country and “we can do so!”
In his official statement earlier this week, Merz almost emphasized that Germany will remain a country of immigration.
But in relation to police officers, Dobrid said it in some more complex terms in Kifersfeldon, saying that now the authorities will now be given more attention to “order”, “in combination with” humanity and order “. To end this, more drones, more thermal imaging cameras and helicopters are being used.
During the election campaign, Merz promised that he would change the immigration policy on its first day in the office. This is certainly due to the electoral successes of far-flung, anti-immigration options for Germany (AFD).
Merge Immigration Plan rubs the wings of European Union neighbors
However, the new German tone on immigration is not going down well everywhere. At the beginning of the term of his post, Marz learned during his visit to Polish President Donald Task at Warsaw that the eastern neighboring European Union wants to compete with illegal immigration on the outer borders of the European Union, not on the German-polished border.
Tusk directly told Mars that Poland would not take any refugees in Germany. “AFD, this is your problem, Mr. Chancellor,” Tusk said. To which Merz replied: “We want to continue the European immigration and refuge policy together and we will be therefore accepted the boundary control that is acceptable to our neighbors.”
During the election campaign, Merz announced that he wanted to limit the number of refugees to 100,000 people per year.
Last year, 229,751 people first applied for asylum in Germany – quite low in 2015, when about 1 million people in Germany. But still, it is about two and a half times as much as the merge would like in the future.
This article was original in German.
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