German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to continue border controls after March 2025. “Our comprehensive measures to limit irregular migration and combat smuggling crime are working,” the SPD politician said.
“We need these controls until the protection of the EU’s external borders has increased significantly,” Faeser emphasized to the “Augsburger Allgemeine”.
Germany has been controlling all external borders since September
Border controls are not actually planned in the Schengen area. To combat illegal immigration, Germany expanded current border controls in the east and south of the country to the west and north for a period of six months in September.
At the time, Faeser justified the order for stationary controls at all land borders with irregular migration and protection against Islamist terrorists and cross-border crime.
The checks became increasingly extensive
The borders with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were affected by the expansion. The border with France had already been checked because of the Olympic Games in Paris. Controls have been in force at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland since mid-October last year, and were introduced at the German-Austrian land border in the autumn of 2015.
Faeser also said deportations have increased by more than 50 percent in the past two years. “We are also the only country in Europe to deport dangerous criminals to Afghanistan for the first time,” she explained. “We will continue that.”
Source: Krone
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