According to German police data, the number of migrants entering Germany in the last two years has exceeded 100,000 in “illegally”.
According to statistics, lakes by German broadsheet newspaper World22,170 “illegal entries” in Germany have been recorded so far in 2025, below 83.572 in the same period in 2024 and 127.549 in 2023.
The newly internal minister of Germany, Alexander Dobridate, comes in the form of data, increased the boundary check in its first week in the office, directing the police last week to return the shelter with the exception of pregnant women and childers, especially weaker people.
The Interior Ministry says that the border check is ‘working’
Dobrindt of Chancellor Frederick Merz’s Orthodox Christian Democrats (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU), CDU’s Bawarian Sister Party’s Austrian Border Border Border Border Bayuriane Premier Marcus Soder crossed a border in the city of Kiefelden.
Talking to reporters, the pair said that 729 attempts to illegally enter Germany in the last seven days were thwarted, in which Dobrid insisted: “The new border check is working.”
Speaking to the Parliament to present his ministry’s plans to MPs on Friday, Dobrid said that “when it comes to illegal migration, there are limitations of integration capabilities of a country. Citizens expect a political change from us and this change began on the borders of Germany.
Addressing the CDU’s junior coalition partners, Center-Leam Social Democrats (SPD), he said: “I know this is a big jump for you that is for us. But let’s complete this task together.”
He insisted that Germany remains a “tolerant country” which is “open for legal migration in our job market and society.”
Poll: AFD voters ignored
Yougov performed according to the pole on bealf Suddatsche Zitung Broadsheets on Friday, 68% of their voters of CDU welcome and think they will reduce irregular immigration.
However, if Dobrend and CDU were expecting to win back the support of traditional conservators, who have voted for a distant populist option for Germany (AFD), they might be disappointed, 63% AFD voters uncomfortable that measures would have any effect.
AFD legalist Gotfred Curiio told Parliament on Friday that the measures do not go far away, calling the government to deport all those who have illegally entered Germany and criticized that very weak group are exemplary by measures.
AFD, which is classified, is pending to appeal, as a right -wing “extremist” by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, has used migration to promote its political fate.
The migration plan fulfills political opposition
Criticism was with the left hand of the political spectrum, questioning the legitimacy of Dobrid’s measures with Germany’s leftist party (dye linke).
“They encourage a practice that is beyond the law,” the legalist Clara Bunger said, warning that the rejection of asylum applications could “be deprived of rights and isolation.”
Germany’s Green Party has warned police officers of the effects of dobrid measures, both in terms of their abilities and validity.
“In three weeks in the latest, massive stress on personnel will effectively eliminate thesis measures, criticizing Greens’ Parliamentary Leader Constantin von Notz.
In the European Parliament, Greens suggested that there may be legal respect for individual police officers who return to shelters on the border.
Green MEP Eric Markvard said, “Police officers are making the Label for prosecution for Dobridate’s immigration drama.” Center The news magazine, claiming that the tight limit investigation “has no legal rung”.
German police welcome
Nevertheless, the Vice President of the German Police Union (DPOLG) Manual Ostmans welcomed measures and called for a return to the immigration levels of 2012 before 2012.
“Border check and strong application of national law is a success, which reduces immigration pressure that has long been more than Germany,” he said WorldAdd:
“A domino effect is having a domino effect from which the shelter applications are happening once again where they should legally do: on the exterior borders of the European Union.”
Edited by: Wesley Rahan
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