The German federal police registered over 15,000 illegal migrants last month, representing around 500 people arriving every day, and the highest number since the beginning of the year and a whopping 40 percent increase compared to July.
More than 71,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Germany – a country half the size of Texas – this year. This trend has continued since 2022, in which just under 100,000 entered the country. Of the migrants entering illegally, Syrians, Afghans, and Turks comprise around 50 percent.
“We have been warning of this development for months. Nothing has happened so far. This behavior is irresponsible. States and municipalities are abandoned by the federal government,” argued Heiko Teggatz, chief of the German Federal Police Union.
“Nancy Faeser [Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior and Community] is the only one who could curb illegal migration by introducing stationary border controls. But she obviously doesn’t even think about doing anything,” he added.
This is, however, only illegal migration. A staggering 2.67 million migrants arrived in Germany in 2022, the highest number since records began in the early 1950s. Yet, that has not deterred the government from announcing new migration agreements, which expedite the application process for people from Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, and Morocco to move to Germany.
