Border controls: Dobrindt desires to stay to the course regardless of falling migration numbers | EUROtoday

Despite the autumn in migration numbers, Federal Interior Minister Dobrindt (CSU) desires to proceed controls at Germany’s borders. “The current issue is that we want to maintain these border controls,” stated Dobrindt on Sunday night within the ARD program “Report from Berlin”. He additionally identified that there have been nonetheless rejections on the borders. “We have now been able to carry out 8,000 arrest warrants at the border.”

According to the minister, within the medium time period, the federal authorities is counting on the migration system in Europe to work in such a approach that “we can move away from border controls again”. However, it can not at the moment be stated when this level will come.

According to Dobrindt, the federal authorities additionally desires to stay to deportations to Afghanistan, even when this requires direct discussions with representatives of the unconventional Islamic Taliban authorities. He could not perceive criticism of this: “Anyone who accuses me of deporting criminals, serious offenders, rapists, murderers to Afghanistan must say the other way around: Would Germany be a safe country if these people were allowed to stay here? No, and that’s why they are being deported,” he stated.

Saarland Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger (SPD), nonetheless, was skeptical about persevering with border controls. “Border controls have always been part of what I certainly saw as critical,” she stated within the “Report from Berlin”. “I still believe that permanent border controls are not the method of choice in Europe, in the middle of Europe. In the end, they harm us more than they help.”