The number of people applying for asylum in Germany is falling. According to government sources, in the first two months of this year, the Federal Migration and Refugee Office (BAMF) received 26,674 preliminary applications and 3,273 supplementary applications. This means that the number of preliminary asylum applications from the beginning of January to the end of February was about 43 percent lower than in the same period last year.
In January this year, 1,733 people obliged to leave were deported from Germany – according to the given information. It is about 30.9 percent more than in January the previous year.
Border controls bring results
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser perceives a decrease in the number of asylum seekers as a confirmation that the sharpened law adopted by the SPD coalition, green, fdp and stationary border controls that he ordered brings results. “We have significantly reduced illegal migration,” said SPD politician of the DPA agency. At the same time, Germany deports more people who have no right.
Meanwhile, the chairman CDU, Friedrich Merzhe said in the campaign electionthat on the first day of his term of office as the German Chancellor he would like to oblige the Ministry of the Interior – using his competence to issue guidelines – to “reject all attempts at all illegal entry”.
50,000 cases of turning back
For such an approach, which would also include people applying for asylum, SPD sees obstacles in EU law. “Illegal migration can be effectively limited by the rule of law and close European cooperation with our neighboring countries,” said Nancy Faeser. This also includes around 50,000 cases Returning by the Federal Police during ongoing border controls from October 2023. Border controls have recently been extended until mid -September.
In October 2023, the head of the Ministry of the Interior ordered permanent inspections, which previously only applied for border Landowe with Austria, also on the borders with Switzerland, Poland and the Czech Republic. The inspections are currently carried out on all German borders land, which must be reported and justified by the European Commission for a specified time. Border controls in the European Schengen zone are not actually foreseen.
(DPA/JAR)
The article comes from the website Deutsche Welle