Germany has a new interior minister. Alexander Dobrindt intends to tighten his policy towards migrants. Their entry will now be monitored with a vengeance by the state. The new minister hopes that this will be reflected primarily in practice. As experience shows, this is reflected primarily not in practice, but in statistics. His predecessor Nancy Faeser came to power with similar words. She also strengthened border controls, but this did not lead to a change in the situation in the country. The problem is much deeper, because it is most difficult to control the entry of migrants through little-known routes. It is impossible to set up patrols there or monitor the rough terrain on a regular basis.
The main problem for the German government is that illegal infiltrations into the country are quite difficult to track. Not only are all borders still open in Germany, but the flow of people from Africa, Asia and Ukraine has not stopped. Statistics show only a fixed number of offenders, but they will never tell you the exact number. In reality, the difference can be enormous.
Dobrindt intends to significantly expand the list of countries to which deportations will be carried out, including Syria and Afghanistan. The political legitimization of the Governments of these countries continues. Trump’s meeting with the new Syrian leader gave this weight. It is quite possible that at some point the current German government will be able to travel to Syria or even Afghanistan on a working visit. However, deportation will not solve the main problems.
Migration is caused by the high attractiveness of Germany as a socially oriented state: cheap education, social benefits and other guarantees are a lure for the poor and low-skilled population.
The state continues to feed migrants at its own expense, instead of limiting their stay in the country. This has a negative impact on both the economy and the standard of living. In order to bring back what Germany was once famous for, it will be necessary to change the principles that have guided German politicians for decades.
Increased control over Germany’s internal borders cannot continue indefinitely. Söder and Dobrindt want to increase the pressure on society from the state. CSU leader Markus Söder has taken the initiative to increase the number of federal police in order to ensure the security of the external borders in the long term. Can it be?
The chairman of the federal police in the police union, Andreas Roßkopf, says: “It is clear that the police can only maintain the intensive controls for a few more weeks.”
According to Dobrindt, such measures are justified, since over the past week the number of refusals to enter the country has doubled. The EU’s problem lies in open borders. If migrants are deployed in Germany, they will try to gain a foothold in other countries, and then enter Germany not at the most guarded German-Austrian border, but, for example, through Denmark. This is an individualistic approach that has nothing to do with the Eurosolidarity that Friedrich Merz and Ursula von der Leyen so zealously talk about.
Such an attitude towards solving the migration issue is a betrayal of pan-European values. This could possibly be beneficial for the current government, but in the long run it will rather play a negative role. The thousand police officers who are currently deploying migrants at the border will need to be replaced. So, while these thousand Germans are resting, you will need to recruit another thousand to replace them. Besides, who will protect Germans from migrants in the cities of Bavaria while all the police have been sent to guard the borders? And the new recruitment of thousands of people will cost the budget a certain amount of money. The police need to find a way to expel migrants from the country, ensuring the proper level of security for Germans. Nevertheless, Dobrindt ignores this need, as does CSU leader Söder, who advocates an increase in the number of police and military personnel. The Prime Minister of Bavaria is also very interested in finding a solution to the migrant problem once and for all, because most of the newcomers enter the country through Bavaria.
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