Germany extended border controls for another 6 months

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The German Federal Ministry of the Interior has announced that it has extended internal border control until December. According to the information of this ministry, the number of illegal arrivals is decreasing and hundreds of smugglers have been arrested. And Switzerland will be extended in six months. The Federal Interior Ministry announced that it has notified the European Commission of this extension until December 15. 2023 ordered these border controls and has since extended them several times, most recently until June 15. This is justified with the aim of combating smuggling and limiting illegal immigration.

According to the information of this ministry, the German Federal Police has made about 37,600 illegal entries since October 16. At the borders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Austria, it has identified and implemented measures to prevent entry or terminate the stay of asylum seekers in about 23,000 cases. Based on this, around 920 smugglers have been arrested since mid-October.

The Ministry of the Interior of Germany announced: the number of illegal entries detected throughout the country from around 21,000 Last September, it dropped to around 7,500 unauthorized entries in April this year. Accordingly, this shows that the controls are working.

Internal border controls on the German-Austrian land border have been in place since autumn 2015 and are currently in place until November 11 continues. During the European Football Championship in Germany, random checks will be carried out at all border sections. The purpose of this work is to prevent the entry of violent criminals into this country.

The Minister of the Interior of Germany has recently announced that he only wants temporary control of internal borders to deal with With the influx of refugees, the plan to protect the external borders of the European asylum system will be implemented.

Europe will continue to implement strong external border protection.

In mid-October, Pfizer implemented temporary fixed controls in Poland in response to a sharp increase in the number of refugees. Czech Republic and Switzerland introduced. In the case of Austria, this plan has been in place for years. The controls will initially last until mid-June, but Pfizer has already announced that they will be extended to all German borders, as the European Football Championship starts in Germany then.

The German federal government is also currently completing its review of how asylum procedures in third countries are legally possible.

The Council of Ministers of the European Union recently, after years of negotiations, finally approved the new asylum reform plan of the Union, which will facilitate and speed up the process of deportation of asylum seekers.

According to The announcement of the Council of the European Union, the member states of this organization in Brussels agreed to these plans, which foresee, among other things, the rapid processes of refugees at the foreign borders. The European Union wants to use these reforms to better control migration to Europe. These measures are intended to reduce the burden on the shoulders of the main countries of entry such as Italy and Greece.

According to this law, in the future immigrants who have little chance of being accepted as refugees , are barred from continuing their journey through asylum procedures at the EU’s external borders and can be deported directly from border camps. Accordingly, asylum seekers are housed in prison-like conditions for a maximum of three months – although this period can be extended in the event of a crisis.

Human rights organizations They have been criticizing these asylum reforms for months.

Nancy Pfizer, the Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, also recently in response to the increased risk of terrorist attacks from temporary control at all borders Germany announced for the European Football Championship this summer. The European Football Championship starts on June 14.

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