Without question, many countries, including the United States, have seen upticks in illegal immigration.
This week, Townhall reported how Canada has essentially closed its doors to more temporary residents and visitors by rejecting more visas and turning away more foreigners at its border in recent years.
Now, another country appears to be following suit with immigration restrictions.
This week, reports broke that Germany would tighten its “border controls” at all land borders. This comes in response to “irregular migration” patterns and to “protect the country from extremist threats,” according to the Associated Press.
“We are strengthening our internal security through concrete action and we are continuing our tough stance against irregular migration,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser reportedly stated at a news conference.
For the next six months, Germany will set up border controls at the land borders with France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark for six months. This will begin Sept. 16.
Restrictions are already in place on the land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland (via AP):
“Until we achieve strong protection of the EU’s external borders with the new Common European Asylum System, we must increase controls at our national borders even more,” Faeser said.
She noted that Germany already has had more than 30,000 rejections of people seeking to cross its borders since last October.
“This served to further limit irregular migration and to protect against the acute dangers posed by Islamist terrorism and serious crime. We are doing everything we can to better protect people in our country against this,” she said.
According to the BBC, the German government came under pressure to take action on immigration after three people were killed in a knife attack in Solingen in August.
The attack was reportedly claimed by the Islamic State group. The suspect is a Syrian national who was facing deportation after a failed asylum bid.