Border controls increased: Federal police reject 160 asylum seekers

Border controls increased: Federal police reject 160 asylum seekers

Since the tightening of the border controls on May 8, the federal police have been rejected 160 asylum seekers at the German borders. These measures, which were valid until June 4, 2025, are part of a comprehensive strategy to control and reduce unauthorized entry. Loud Dewezet.de a total of 4,128 unauthorized entry were found during this period.

In addition, 3,279 people were either rejected or pushed back either on the border or in connection with illegal border crossings. The perpetrators behind these illegal exaggerated, especially smugglers, are also targeted by the federal police, who arrested 138 of them in the same period. These measures are in accordance with the legal provisions that allow rejection of asylum seekers if another state is responsible for the asylum procedure.

intensification of border controls

The systematic controls at the German national borders have been reinforced since September 2024. The federal police found in a total of 140 days of such controls that affected 22,243 unauthorized entry. In the same period, 13,786 people were rejected or pushed back without the necessary papers, and 518 smugglers were also arrested. These figures illustrate the urgency of politics to restrict irregular migration, because the total unauthorized entry for 2024 amounts to 83,572, which represents a decline compared to previous years, such as Tagesschau.de reported.

Another goal of these measures is to comply with the security standards in Germany. For example, over 30,000 rejections have been carried out by border controls since mid -2023 alone. The Federal Government emphasized that this also serves to protect against terrorisms and cross -border crime.

criticism and challenges

Despite the positive feedback on security, there are concerns about possible delays in trade and travel that could bring these controls with them. The DIHK's head of the administrator emphasized that the necessary deliveries and cross-border trade must work smoothly, while the BDI points out that the checks should run flexibly and efficiently in order not to affect free goods and passenger transport. In Bavaria, traffic jams and longer waiting times have already been documented at the transitions, while no significant delays were found in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This raises the question of whether the strategy of border controls remains practical in the long term.

Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) also noted a judicial decision from Berlin, which states that the rejection of three Somalians was illegal in the event of a border control, since the responsibility of another EU state was not clarified. Dobrindt explained that despite the decision to keep up with the previous practice in order to protect the legal framework of the border controls, but also to react to the challenges that exist through migration, as DetailsOrtDeutschlandQuellen

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