{"id":41982,"date":"2024-09-09T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41982"},"modified":"2024-09-09T20:11:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:11:11","slug":"germany-tightens-controls-at-all-borders-in-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=41982","title":{"rendered":"Germany tightens controls at all borders in immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BERLIN, Sept 9  &#8211; Germany&#8217;s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country&#8217;s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement &#8211; the European Schengen zone &#8211; will start on Sept. 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said, without adding details on the controversial and legally fraught move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restrictions are part of a series of measures Germany has taken to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/once-welcoming-germany-talks-tougher-asylum-ahead-elections-2023-10-06\/\">toughen<\/a>&nbsp;its stance on irregular migration in recent years following a surge in arrivals, in particular people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#8217;s government is seeking to seize back the initiative from the opposition far-right and conservatives, who have seen support rise as they tap into voter worries about stretched public services, integration and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are strengthening internal security and continuing our hard line against irregular migration,&#8221; Faeser said, noting the government had notified the European Commission and neighboring countries of the intended controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) BERLIN, Sept 9 &#8211; Germany&#8217;s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country&#8217;s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement &#8211; the European Schengen zone &#8211; will start on Sept. 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday. The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said, without adding details on the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41984,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982\/revisions\/41984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}