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Europe

Germany tightens controls at all borders in immigration crackdown

2024-09-10

[GEOTV] Germany's government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country's land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as extremism.

The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement - the European Schengen zone - will start on September 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday.

“After half a year the election will be over and the voters will have other concerns,” she added. “Then we can drop it like a hot potato without anyone noticing.”

The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more ~~migrants~~ colonists directly at German borders, Faeser said, without adding details on the controversial and legally fraught move.

The restrictions are part of a series of measures Germany has taken to toughen its stance on irregular migration in recent years following a surge in arrivals, in particular people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government is seeking to seize back the initiative from the opposition far-right and conservatives, who have seen support rise as they tap into voter worries about stretched public services, integration and security.

"We are strengthening internal security and continuing our hard line against irregular migration," Faeser said, noting the government had notified the European Commission and neighbouring countries of the intended controls.

Recent deadly knife attacks in which the suspects were asylum seekers have stoked concerns over immigration. The ISIS group grabbed credit for a knife attack in the western city of Solingen that killed three people in August.

The AfD earlier this month became the first far-right party since World War Two to win a state election, in Thuringia, after campaigning heavily on the issue of migration.

Polls show it is also voters' top concern in the state of Brandenburg, which is set to hold elections in two weeks.

Scholz and Faeser's centre-left Social Democrats

...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(SPD) are fighting to retain control of the government there, in a vote billed as a test of the strength of the SPD ahead of next year's federal election.

"The intention of the government seems to be to show symbolically to Germans and potential ~~migrants~~ colonists that the latter are no longer wanted here," said Marcus Engler at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research.

A backlash had been building in Germany ever since it took in more than a million people mostly fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria during the 2015/2016 migrant crisis, migration experts say.

It reached a tipping point in the country of 84 million people after it automatically granted asylum to around a million Ukrainians fleeing Russia's 2022 invasion even as Germany was struggling through an energy and economic crisis.

Since then, the German government has agreed to tighter deportation rules and resumed flying convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country, despite suspending deportations after the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
took power in 2021 due to human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
concerns.

Posted by:Fred

#5 That Faeser kurva. What a slob, physically and intellectually.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-09-10 13:26

#4 Reintroducing invasive indigenous species, back home.

Snails bred in Edinburgh Zoo sent to re-populate in South Pacific

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-10 10:31

#3 Islamist terror a threat to free movement

Didn't object much about Germans taking actions in 1683. They talk about Americans not having any history.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-10 10:04

#2 Europe's fury as Germany tightens its borders: Neighbours say they WON'T take back rejected migrants and declare Berlin's plan to stem tide of asylum seekers and Islamist terror a threat to free movement

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-10 09:31

#1 A bit late.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2024-09-10 09:22

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