ARCHIWUM PHOTO: German national Police are checking cars entering the German-Polish border in Frankfurt nad Oder.© Maja Hitij/Getty Images
The fresh border repression in Germany may take respective more weeks, warns the police union, citing expanding force on the officers liable for enforcing this policy.
A informing comes 2 weeks after the government introduced stricter border controls to reduce the number of asylum seekers entering the country."We can only do this due to the fact that the on-call schedules have been adjusted, unit training is presently halted and overtime simplification has been halted", said Andreas Rosskopf, president of the national police department and customs service of the German police professional union.He warned that checks could take time "a fewer more weeks."These measures represent a crucial change in Germany's position on migration and meet the key electoral promise of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who promised to tighten immigration rules.The Home Minister's Regulation of 7 May prohibits asylum applications at all land borders, which reverses the 2015 policy of erstwhile Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Exceptions apply to children, pregnant women and another susceptible groups.
To 11,000 officers already stationed at the German border were added to 3000.
The 2015 policy defined Germany's approach to refugees, and at the same time sparked a fierce political reaction and critics called it ‘catastrophic’.A week after the Dobrindt measures were announced, he claimed that the number of rejections had increased by almost half.
However, according to Der Spiegel, the number of asylum applications remained mostly unchangeable in the week after 7 May.
Germany, as the largest EU economy, is the most popular destination for asylum seekers.
According to authoritative statistics, foreigners presently account for 17% of the country's population.Migration remains a polarising issue, and local authorities frequently inform that the number of asylum seekers is charged with their budgets.The right-wing alternate organization for Germany (AfD), known for its strong anti-immigration position, was considered at the beginning of this period as ‘confirmed extremist entity’ by the National Intelligence Agency (BfV), which concluded that its actions could undermine the democratic order of Germany.
The designation was later suspended after legal appeals and public outrage.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/617913-germany-immigration/
