4d ago

Germany tightens border policy in ‘signal’ to world, interior minister says

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Germany tightens border policy in ‘signal’ to world, interior minister says – POLITICO

Germany’s new Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters on Wednesday that he had instructed federal police to tighten border controls with the goal of turning back more irregular migrants, including those who intend to seek asylum.

Poland and Austria have criticized the new government’s plan, which would also see Berlin rejecting people who want to claim asylum.

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Uh, wow. Who doesn't love border controls in the middle of Europe... /s
And didn't they try last autumn and it was kind of a bummer? Mainly expensive, more work for the police force without any good payoff? But sure, let's waste some more money on something we know doesn't work.
- It's all about that nice fuzzy feeling, not actual results.
  
  Hmmh, you're right. And it makes something tingle inside of me as well. But it's not a nice feeling... Let's just hope they don't waste too much effort on this. And they don't molest me when I'm shopping or on a weekend trip. Maybe they should invest the money into some social media propaganda campaign. I heard that aligns with the zeitgeist as well. And it'd also make people feel a certain way. I'd say that's likely cheaper and more effective.

Same "person" saying the left should be banned while claiming they will just control the far right. Something that, IF THAT FUCKING FASCIST-INVITING BRAIN AMPUTATED IDIOTIC BUFFOON WOULD READ A HISTORY BOOK OR GET A LESSON ONCE IN IT'S FUCKING MISERABLE SHIT OF A LIVE, FAILED VERY FUCKING SPECTACULARLY LAST TIME. VERY. SPECTACULARLY.
- Could you please spare the rhetoric about "fascists" for later, if and when these newly-in-office, certainly deeply misguided, bigoted, right-wing idiots have held the door open for actual fascists long enough?
  
  fixed
  
  have held the door open for actual fascists long enough
  So you somehow missed the last 3½ years?
- Well put. Germany is in an embarrassing state.

Blatant racism and populism aside this puts a huge workload on the police who are criminally overworked already. Watch this joke of a government build a police state next under the claim this will help the police when it fact it puts even more load on it. And then they will start „simplifying“ the law to „solve“ problems they themselves created. What you end up is the worst of both worlds of police control and normalizing cherry picked justice to the point barely anyone even questions when they target specific groups in an effort to actively discriminate. „They can‘t go after everyone“ they will claim when overlooking far right hate crimes.

In case anyone is curious what that means in practice: There's federal police driving around in border areas investigating "lost people" reports, i.e. people dumped at the side of the street by traffickers, and drive them to the next town to get processed. Occasionally they can catch a glimpse of a license plate. Those guys now get more overtime.
As to the rejecting asylum thing: IIRC you're supposed to apply for asylum in the first EU country you step foot on, the refugee distribution mechanism only distributes people who filed paperwork, it doesn't mean that you can choose where you file.
This is 100% symbolic, with no actual real-world impact. Which, we can only hope, is the only type of politics the Dobrindt will do.
- Since there is a finite number of police officers, those officers will be missing elsewhere in the country. And iirc, the queues before border crossings were already longer due to border checks.
  
  Well, Bundespolizei Officers used for this aren't usually the brightest, and they only fulfill their jobs at Airports, Borders and Train Stations, so they won't be badly missed
  
  The states generally have shit covered on their own and aren't relying on the BPOL, the BKA certainly won't get involved, they could divert some personnel from the railway system or Bepo. I very much doubt that, though, why do things when you can say that you're doing things.
  ...in fact, if I were a BPOL higher-up I'd interpret "tighten border controls" to mean "stop that pointless driving around in the countryside and station those people at international airports, instead". You know, places where there's actual border checkpoints that can be tightened. Let state police deal with stray foreigners dumped roadside.

This guy is a complete moron and was already a total failure as a transport minister.
Ignore everything he says.
I'm sorry that my country was so stupid and voted for these "conservative" morons again because apparently they couldn't remember that they voted them out 4 years ago for letting our infrastructure crumble and blocking any progress in order "to save money" during a zero interest rate phase.

Kinda seems like Germany can't help but be jealous of how much more openly bigoted the U.S. has become.
- They travelled to DeSantis and other GOP Assholes to learn from them. It's really sad
  https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/kritik-an-treffen-von-csu-politikern-mit-desantis-18873777.html

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