Migration: Dobrindt increasingly presence of the police at the borders

With more police officers at the German land borders, the new Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) wants to ensure a decline in irregular migration. According to information from the German Press Agency, the minister would like to advise details today with Federal Police President Dieter Romann and the President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Hans-Eckhard Sommer.

“After oral instructions, the growth of the forces gone at the borders,” said the chairman of the police union (GdP) for the Federal Police and customs area, Andreas Roßkopf, the “Rheinische Post”. The border agencies have been instructed, where necessary to change duties “to achieve more availability”.

The “SPIEGEL” reports that the contingent of the Federal Riot Police at the border is apparently doubled to twelve hundreds, and mobile control and surveillance units will soon come. In addition, the officials in the border inspections should in future pay twelve-hour layers.

The police trade unionists had previously warned of overloading the federal police. Proponents of such measures reply that the police officers would be relieved elsewhere: In the event of more rejections, they would also have to capture the data from fewer people and accompany fewer asylum seekers in initial reception facilities.

The border controls according to EU law had already been introduced on the border with Austria in 2015 and gradually expanded by the traffic light government to all border sections. The then CDU chairman and current Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the then CSU state group leader Dobrindt had announced in the election campaign to reinforce the controls immediately after taking office and reject asylum seekers.

In the coalition agreement between the Union and the SPD, it is agreed: “In coordination with our European neighbors, we will also make rejections at the common limits even in the event of asylum requests.” Between the Union and the SPD, it is unclear whether “in coordination” means to obtain approval from the neighbors or only to consult them.