New Merz govt orders pushback of all illegal migrants at German borders, effectively abolishes asylum as a path into Germany

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ER Editor: The original article in Bild, short and linked-to below (browsers will translate), is worth checking out for its astonished tone, as in ‘wow, the madness of the Merkel years is over!’

The new government under Merz was sworn in this week, finally. We covered the debacle of Merz himself (we believe this former BlackRock CEO to be a 2.0) having to have TWO votes in one day to become Chancellor. A vote is constitutionally required by the Bundestag (Parliament) to install the new Chancellor, but a vote in favour is usually automatic. In this case, it wasn’t. See here and here. Who knew German politics could be so interesting? Theatre. The new government was installed as soon as Merz was voted in.

Now, the new interior minister, one Alexander Dobrindt has apparently turned around Mutti Merkel’s immigration policy in a heartbeat, which eugyppius explains below. Of course, the AfD are now at their most popular, and Alice Weidel was calling for a new election given Merz’s inability to be voted in as Chancellor first time. So this could be a response to that, as eugyppius notes.

Nonetheless, by itself this is an historic move against mass illegal immigration, for whatever reason it’s been done.

Politico also has this —

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

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For ten years, anybody at all could enter Germany. All he had to do was claim asylum at our borders, and if he was smart, he would also make himself almost impossible to deport by destroying his identification documents. Migrants could do this even though none of them had any right to asylum in Germany. Asylum, after all, has to be claimed in the first EU country asylees reach. Merkel set aside this so-called “Dublin rule” in 2015, to reduce pressure on EU border states like Greece and Italy, but her act opened the generous German social welfare state to the entire developing world, serving only to pull more migrants into Europe generally.

As BILD notes, these policies have been in place for 3,533 days. Probably more than 3 million migrants – the vast majority of them would-be asylees – have come to the Federal Republic on the strength of them.

Our politicians told us for years that nothing could be done about this, and now Dobrindt has done something. He has done something really big.

Legally, neighbouring countries are required to accept push-backs without question, and if Germany is consistent with push-backs, the sheer number of rejected migrants will compel our neighbours to enact their own push-backs as well. A domino effect will take root, which will end with the restoration of security at the external borders of the EU. This could be the end of an era – one of the stupidest, most pointless and self-destructive eras in modern European history.

That’s far from guaranteed, of course. This move will anger our neighbours: Austria has already voiced sharp dissent, but for the moment our leaders remain determined. Parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn (CDU) has said the push-backs will happen even over the objections of bordering countries. We must hope they stay resolute – also in the face of the press attacks and the activist protests that are to come, to say nothing of the legal challenges.

If the establishment are smart, however, they’ll accept Dobrindt’s policy change with nothing beyond some perfunctory nostrums about the universal sanctity of human rights. The Union parties, after all, are not doing this out of a newfound love for border security. They’re desperate to stop the bleeding of their own support to Alternative für Deutschland. This is, in its own way, a direct attack on the AfD – and a far more serious one than any new spy agency classification. (ER: The German domestic spy agency just classified the AfD as ‘extremist’; Weidel is taking them to court.)

Source

Featured image source, Alexander Dobrindt: https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/dobrindt-ordnet-an-asyl-stopp-an-allen-grenzen-jetzt-681b30c3c956e61cc27afcad

Featured image source, Merkel screaming: https://x.com/WunderKind_1871/status/1900512373636538575/photo/1

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