German ministers agree tougher rules for migrants posing security risk

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German ministers agree tougher rules for migrants posing security risk

REUTERS

 

Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Daniela Schadt, President Joachim Gauck and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (LtoR) attend New Year's reception at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's interior and justice ministers, representing the two blocs in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, agreed on Tuesday on tougher measures for asylum seekers whose documents are not in order or who are deemed to pose a security threat.

 

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and Justice Minister Heiko Maas resolved to tighten the security rules after the Christmas market attack in Berlin in which a failed Tunisian asylum seeker killed 12 people.

 

"We have agreed on the introduction of mandatory residency, in layman's terms: stricter domicile requirements for asylum seekers who have been deceptive with their identities," de Maiziere, a member of Merkel's conservatives, told reporters.

 

"Secondly, it will now be easier to take people into custody for deportation," he added after meeting Maas, a member of the Social Democrats - the junior partner in the coalition government.

 

German investigators identified the Berlin Christmas market attacker as a threat last February, but when officials subsequently met to discuss whether to deport him they determined he posed no acute threat that could be presented in court, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported last week.

 

The new measures will make it easier for the authorities to electronically tag foreigners deemed a security risk and required to leave Germany but who have not yet left, de Maiziere said.

 

The Christmas market attack has thrown security policy into sharp focus ahead of September's federal elections. In addition to the tougher rules for failed asylum seekers, de Maiziere has proposed restructuring Germany's security set-up.

 

Earlier on Tuesday, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Italy and Greece should if necessary be excluded from Europe's passport-free Schengen area if they do not fulfil their obligations to exchange data on criminals.

 

He said people travelling by air or over land should be checked at the borders of those countries if they did not comply. He called for a deadline of the end of this year.

 

(Reporting by Andreas Rinke and Reuters TV; Writing by Paul Carrel)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-01-11

[sweatalot]

If they take this serious, at least 80 % of the migrants will have to be deported.

But that is something these cowards will never do.

[Grouse]

The Germans are cowards? Well, I'll go the foot of our stairs!

[ubonjoe]

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[gchurch259]

They never should have opened the door to start with, it is an invasion, not a refugee relief, because they never planned to go back, only change the culture to match their own !

 

[F4UCorsair]

 

 

Genuine or just posturing?    My money is on posturing......gotta keep the lefties happy, at all costs.

[Saradoc1972]

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"We have agreed on the introduction of mandatory residency, in layman's terms: stricter domicile requirements for asylum seekers who have been deceptive with their identities," de Maiziere, a member of Merkel's conservatives, told reporters.

 

Have you now? And who is going to make them stick to those domicile requirements? How?

It's not like this hasn't been tried recently, just a couple hundreds of our new skilled labourers simple disregarded them and sat in a train from the disliked rural parts of eastern Germany straight to the Ruhr-area, where the was more of an ethnic community living. Place is becoming completely overrun and going bust with the welfare they have to dole out. Sat in city halls during the public discussions how to enforce those rules like they were saying: You can't make us stay anywhere, be careful what you say here and vote for, there is too many of us, imagine if we get angry. 

 

Now earnestly: collect them 40 apiece and sit them in a bus or train back to where they are supposed to keep residing? You'll need a hundred police to do that, you'll need to protect the driver, make them stay in that bus or train, and the thing isn't going to look all new and shiny when you are done.
 

Which residency requirement exactly, when a lot of them have up to 20 identities or are going to acquire them while there is still chaos reigning and they are slow keeping up with fingerprinting? Anis Amri had at least 14 identities, they are still counting.

 

What if they just sit in the next train back to their desired destination again? Train operators have ceased going after them for not having bought a ticket, they are considered without the means to pay up, the fare or the fine. By the way, that's how criminal statistics are fudged these days. No reporting to police, train operators consider that a waste of effort, so we got ourselves upstanding model citizens. 

 

Prison after the third or fourth case? Hardly in Germany for that kind of offence. As a legal resident, yes, you will go to prison for dodging fares after a while, still some deterrent when you have a household and job to keep. Prisons are full to the brim anyway, when they were not in 2014. And some of those chappies are hard to handle, isolation cells are now constantly in use. 

 

Great. Sit down, have a scone.