Migration: Dobrindt wants tightened border controls shortly after taking office
Berlin. One day after his planned inauguration, the future Federal Minister of the Interior, Alexander Dobrindt, plans to order increased rejections of migrants and increased controls at Germany's external borders.
"The first decisions will be made after taking office this Wednesday. To this end, border controls will be ramped up and rejections will be increased," the CSU politician told "Bild am Sonntag." There will be no border closures.
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"The numbers of illegal migration must come down. For humanity and order to succeed equally, control, clarity, and consistency are needed. To this end, we are preparing national and European decisions," Dobrindt continued.
On Tuesday, CDU leader Friedrich Merz is set to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag. Thorsten Frei (CDU), the future head of the Chancellery, recently announced further tightened border controls starting on the first day of the new government—albeit with a time limit.
The Polish Embassy in Berlin reacted skeptically to the announcements from the Union. "The current controls at the German-Polish border are already a problem for daily border traffic and the functioning of the EU internal market," the embassy's chargé d'affaires, Jan Tombinski, told the news magazine "Politico" on Friday.
He referred to measures already in place under the previous "traffic light" government, which caused traffic jams on roads from Poland to Germany, sometimes lasting for hours. "We therefore do not want to see any tightening of border controls."
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