There are still no controls and no obligation to register for people with a Ukrainian passport. In doing so, we are negligently neglecting internal security, says Gunnar Schupelius.
The Federal Council has extended “simplified entry” for people with a Ukrainian passport until August 31. This means that they do not have to report to the authorities until then and are not checked at the border.
The reason given is that the aim is to enable the refugees to enter the country “unbureaucratically” and to avoid “overburdening the immigration authorities in particular”.
The “simplified entry” is controversial. The CDU in the Bundestag demands that all migrants from Ukraine be checked and registered at the border. The Bavarian Interior Minister Herrmann (CSU) is also in favor of this: “We have to know who is coming to us and prevent smugglers, human traffickers, organized crime or other criminals from exploiting the situation for their own purposes.”
Bavaria is the only federal state that treats all people from the Ukraine as identification when entering the country. Thuringia’s President for the Protection of the Constitution, Kramer, shares the Bavarian concerns: “With all the help, compassion and humanity in the current situation, we must not lose sight of the security of our citizens and our nations.”
Islamist terrorist groups could abuse the lack of border controls to smuggle in potential assassins, Kramer said. Germany must be “prepared in the area of espionage and sabotage”.
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But all the warning voices are useless, the fact remains that anyone who shows a Ukrainian passport will be waved through by the federal police. The first forged passports, which were intended to allow illegal entry into Germany, have already been uncovered. The holders of Ukrainian passports are only recorded when they report to the authorities themselves, for example to claim state aid.
Berlin is particularly careless with security. While people in Bavaria take fingerprints and compare personal details with the search databases, here people are content with registering their passport without checking it, even if it has long since expired.
The method of simplified entry was an emergency solution during the first rush at the beginning of the war and was probably justified for that reason.
But six weeks have passed since then. During this time, shouldn’t we have pooled our strengths in such a way that security was restored? Why can Bavaria control the refugees, but not Brandenburg? And why doesn’t Berlin even check the passports when they are presented? Out of consideration? But to whom?
Nobody is harmed by an identification service treatment. And nobody benefits from uncontrolled entry. We are repeating the mistakes of 2015, when controls were suspended, with the result that war refugees were not distinguished from others and terrorists actually entered the country via the Balkan route.
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