German border police now have the order to repress undileged asylum seekers, “except vulnerable groups, such as children and pregnant women”. The purpose of this measure is “to reduce illegal immigration”. This is what Alexander Dobrindt said on Wednesday, invests the day before as a German Minister of the Interior of the Government of Government Friedrich Merz.
According to Bildthe Bavarian curator (CSU) gave oral education to the federal police to strengthen border controls and increase the refusal of illegal entries. The 11,000 current agents will be reinforced by 2,000 to 3,000 additional agents. According to the daily life, the police are already ready on the deployment sites along the exterior border of almost 4,000 km long.
The order to welcome refugees was only verbal
Alexander Dobrindt revoked in writing on Wednesday an oral investigation of 2015 addressed to the federal police by the former interior minister Thomas de Maizière. According to this instruction, the following provision applied before: “National countries nationals without documents legitimizing their stay and who apply for asylum must be authorized to enter the country. »»
The verbal order given to the federal police was given to the strongest of the refugee crisis in 2015, under the Chancellor Angela Merkel : At that time, more a million refugees from Syria and Afghanistan had crossed the border. Legally these people could have been repressed, because Germany is surrounded exclusively from secure third countries.
According to the early May declarations of the social democrat Nancy FaeSer, who preceded Alexander Dobrindt inside, more than 53,000 people have been repressed to German borders since October 2023.