Berlin additionally plans to deport extra rejected asylum seekers with legal information to Taliban-run Afghanistan and to war-scarred Syria, Mr. Dobrindt stated in a podcast with media outlet Table.Today.
Germany’s conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed a tricky crackdown on irregular immigration, saying that is the one method to stem rising help for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebration.
A spate of lethal assaults blamed on asylum seekers and different overseas nationals fuelled public fears through the marketing campaign for the February election, wherein the AfD scored a file 20%.
“We will continue to maintain the border controls” past the September 15 deadline, Mr. Dobrindt stated in regards to the measures first launched final 12 months below the earlier authorities of Olaf Scholz and prolonged by six months in March.
“We are in agreement with our European partners that this is a necessary measure until the (EU) external border protection system is fully operational,” he stated.
Members of Europe’s Schengen space are allowed to quickly reintroduce border controls for as much as two years in response to critical threats resembling terrorism or large-scale unauthorised migration.
Mr. Merz’s authorities additional tightened the border checks when it took energy in early May, shifting to additionally reject most asylum seekers — a step that sparked an outcry from human rights teams.
Federal police numbers deployed every day on the borders have been stepped as much as 14,000 from 11,000.
According to ministry knowledge, 9,254 folks have been turned again at German land borders between May 8 and July 31 — with most recorded instances from Afghanistan adopted by Algeria, Eritrea and Somalia.
Germany’s border with France noticed essentially the most rejections, at greater than 2,000 in that interval, adopted by Poland, Switzerland and Austria.
Germany has additionally twice deported migrants convicted of offences to Afghanistan, most just lately final month when 81 have been despatched again — a transfer Mr. Dobrindt stated “cannot remain a one-off measure”.
Amnesty International criticised the deportations, saying the state of affairs in Afghanistan was “catastrophic” and that “extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and torture are commonplace”.
Mr. Dobrindt additionally stated Berlin was working to organise deportation flights to Syria, the place an Islamist-led offensive toppled longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December.
Published – August 07, 2025 10:59 pm IST
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