The number of people entering Germany illegally has risen sharply in recent months. This is reported by the “Rheinische Post”. Above all, the German eastern and southern borders (to Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland) are affected. Compared to the previous year, the number has almost tripled.
According to a newspaper report, the number of people entering Germany illegally has increased significantly in recent months. The “focal point” is the German-Czech border with 11,827 registered cases from the beginning of the year to the end of September, the “Rheinische Post” reported on Saturday, citing data from the federal police. In the whole of 2021, only about 4,200 illegal entries were reported at this border.
In August and September 2022 alone, more than 6,500 were reported, a federal police spokesman told the newspaper. According to the “Rheinische Post”, the authority put the total number of illegal entries into Germany in the current year at around 56,800. According to the federal government’s migration report, there were almost 35,500 in 2020 as a whole. The report for 2021 is not yet available.
The newspaper quoted the federal police as saying that “an increasing trend in the number of unauthorized entries detected” is “especially noticeable at the German eastern and southern borders (to Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland) in the current year. Every day, the authority records an average of more than 400 people who have entered the country illegally in its area of responsibility.
