The German federal government has announced it will enact controls on all its land borders for the next six months. This comes after promises to crack down on illegal migration following several radical Islamist terror attacks. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced Tuesday, September 10, that the new controls will take effect on Monday.
“We are strengthening domestic security and continuing our tough stance against irregular migration,” Faeser said.
In the last several months, Germany has seen several Islamic terror attacks, and all have been linked to migration, including the mass stabbing at a festival in Solingen the previous month, where a failed asylum seeker from Syria killed three people. It later emerged that the Syrian had not only pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group but was also supposed to have been deported last year.
Another attempted attack took place in Munich last week when police shot a migrant resident from Austria armed with a rifle. The individual was a suspected Islamist and traveled across the border into Germany under the open borders Schengen agreement. The Austrian was shot dead by German police in front of the Israeli consulate on the anniversary of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic games by Palestinian gunmen.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government promised several measures in the wake of the attacks, including stricter knife crime laws and an increase in the deportations of illegals. Germany recently carried out its first deportation flight to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country in 2021.
The measures also come as the populist Alternative for Germany surged in elections. The party recently won the regional election in Thuringia and came a close second in Saxony. It is projected to win again in Brandenburg later this month.
