Germany's new interior minister Alexander Dobrindt is deploying more police to the country's borders to curb irregular immigration, the DPA learned on Wednesday.
Sources told DPA that Dobrinte, from the Conservative Christian Society Union (CSU), will meet with Federal Police President Dieter Romann and Hans-Eckhard Sommer, president of the Federal Immigration and Refugee Office.
Andreas Rosskopf, president of the GDP Police Coalition, told the Rheinische Post newspaper that police have begun to increase the number of police officers deployed to the country's land border after receiving verbal instructions.
He said.
Doblint and Germany's new prime minister Friedrich Merz are both running for a campaign to lower irregular immigration by increasing the rejection of the country's borders, including those of asylum seekers, vowing to add checks on the first day of taking office.
Critics argue that banning people from claiming asylum violates EU law, while police unions have long warned that federal police could reach their limits if more officers are deployed to the border.
Supporters of the course believe that reducing the number of arrivals will help ease the burden elsewhere, and police have to accompany fewer people in detail and accompany fewer asylums to the reception center.
Like most EU countries, Germany is part of the visa-free Schengen region, which abolished border checks between its members, first reintroducing temporary inspections on the 2015 border with southern Austria. Under EU rules, these measures are temporary and must be extended every few months.
Under the circumstances of the previous left-wing government, Germany gradually conducted temporary inspections on all its land borders.
German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the federal police force on standby at the border will obviously double, with about 1,200 officers, and mobile inspection and surveillance forces will soon increase.
In addition, border inspector officials will have to perform 12-hour shifts in the future.
