By Gunnar Schupelius
Already 40 years ago it was not possible to stop illegal migration. This had devastating consequences. The politicians have not learned from the mistakes of that time and are repeating them today, says Gunnar Schupelius.
Germany is unable to end illegal immigration, even though most asylum seekers are not entitled to asylum.
Berlin is currently particularly badly affected: from January to August, more than 12,000 asylum seekers crossed the border from Poland. That is 168 percent more than in the previous year. They are deliberately smuggled in by the government in Belarus.
It was very similar 40 years ago. At that time, the GDR helped with the locks. Lebanese, Kurds and Palestinians flew with “Interflug” via Beirut or Cyprus to Schönefeld. They were given a transit visa and did not need a passport.
From Schönefeld, the migrants were taken by bus to what was then the Friedrichstrasse border crossing and left for West Berlin. They arrived at Hallesches Tor on the U6 and applied for asylum.
In 1983 alone, around 50,000 asylum seekers came to Berlin in this way. Only “every 250th applicant” is “recognized as a politically persecuted person”, wrote the news magazine “Spiegel” on September 21, 1986. Nevertheless, the rejected asylum seekers were not deported, only the CDU parliamentary group leader at the time, Klaus Landowsky, demanded this, but could not push through. In March 1985, the federal government asked the GDR to stop entry via Schönefeld. But the GDR refused.
The Lebanese, Kurds and Palestinians who were not granted asylum were allowed to stay in Berlin with a toleration, but were not allowed to work. That was the second major political mistake after not deporting. Because now a parallel society developed, from which the clans finally emerged.
According to the definition of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), a clan is an “ethnically isolated subculture” with a patriarchal organization that follows its “own value system” beyond German law.
There are many of these clans today, the four largest bear the names “Abou-Chaker”, “Miri”, “Remmo” and “Al-Zein”. It is a mafia that has never existed in Berlin before. The police and judiciary are having great difficulty keeping serious organized crime in check.
These catastrophic conditions are the result of an asylum policy that was wrong and indecisive 40 years ago. Then as now, Germany was the victim of illegal immigration, which was controlled from abroad, at that time from the GDR, today for example from Minsk. New clan structures are already growing, as with the Chechens in Brandenburg.
It would only be natural if the politicians in office learned from the mistakes of the past. But they don’t do that, they repeat the mistakes of the past. The consequences for our country will be significant.
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