Published 13 September 2024 at 12.06
Foreign. On Tuesday, the German government held a cross-bloc «immigration conference» where the goal was to reach a broad agreement on how to stop mass immigration. It is clear from the media reporting that Germany is now in practice stopping accepting asylum seekers from the third world — and it is also clear how easy it is and has always been for Sweden to do the same.
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The newspaper Welt has reported on the practical problems with asylum immigration that Fria Tider has written about for three decades, namely that immigration is fundamentally illegal and that it is therefore not possible to deport an asylum seeker who shows up in the receiving country to seek asylum if the immigrant does not tell honestly how he got into Europe.
Even if it is possible to determine where the immigrant originally comes from, for example Somalia, deporting to Somalia can be difficult in practical terms because the country will not accept its own citizens if they are forcibly deported. It is ultimately about countries controlling their own airspace and that a Swedish state aircraft will not get permission to land in Mogadishu, for example, if there are deported people on board.
Flying deportees on commercial aircraft is also not a good idea because most countries apply so-called carrier liability to commercial airlines, which makes them financially responsible for all costs related to people being brought without legal support, such as deported Somalis in Somalia's CASE. Conversely, airlines that bring illegal immigrants from Somalia to Arlanda can be held responsible for the costs of these Somalis, which is why illegal entry by air is unusual. In this way, the Social Democrats also stopped immigration by ferry to Trelleborg during the asylum chaos in 2015, by introducing border controls in the port and imposing carrier liability on the shipping companies there.
In order to enter a receiving country and seek asylum without risking immediate return, the illegal immigration must in practice often take place across a national border. Unlike Sweden, Germany has many land borders with many countries; Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark. When large amounts of illegal immigrants came from, for example, Belarus via Poland, Germany introduced border controls towards Poland, which took place in 2023. However, they have been completely ineffective in practice because illegal immigrants were able to freely get to another EU country bordering Germany, and then travel in from there and seek asylum.
What Germany has now done for the first time is to establish complete border controls against all neighboring countries. Immigrants can still get to such a border control and apply for asylum directly at the German border, but it is not as smart as it sounds.
During this week's migration conference, the CSU and CDU, the two Christian Democratic parties in Germany now in opposition, argued that Germany should not accept asylum applications coming in at these borders. After all, Germany only borders apparently safe neighboring countries, the CSU/CDU believed, and immigrants should therefore be directed to apply for asylum in the country they are in.
It won't be like that, because the government wants to follow the Geneva Conventions as a standard that everyone has the right to seek asylum at the border. But Germany, like all neighboring countries, is included in the Schengen cooperation where the so-called Dublin Regulation applies, which means that an immigrant who enters the Union must have his asylum application examined in the first EU country he passes through.
The German border controls will therefore in practice make it possible to always receive an asylum application and then apply the Dublin Regulation by rejecting the immigrant to the neighboring country he came from. Since all neighboring countries are safe countries with safe asylum systems, just like in Sweden's case, Germany will without exception be able to return every asylum seeker to the other side of the border again, and refer them to seek asylum in the neighboring country. Despite the CSU/CDU not being heard for their demand for direct expulsions, the border controls therefore mean a de facto total stop to asylum immigration to Germany from now on.
It is possible that some neighboring countries will protest the application of the Dublin Regulation and it is possible that the European Commission will eventually demand that Germany remove its border controls. But by and large, Germany's relatively simple measures will work, and for Sweden, which has no land borders with problem countries in the area of immigration, it has been easy to implement similar changes ever since the Dublin Regulation came into force in 1990, if one wanted to stop immigration, of course.< /p>
For Germany, it was the threat of losing government power to a genuine opposition party – Alternative for Germany – that finally made the government give up on the immigration project and throw in the towel. However, it happened in a situation where Germany has basically already been transformed into a multicultural one, with all that that entails, and further immigration is not needed for those who wish to secure the country's Third World-involved future. In addition, the EU's redistribution mechanism will eventually come into force and then Germany will have to accept Third World immigrants regardless of what the government in Berlin thinks about the matter.
In Sweden, there is currently no opposition to the immigration policy represented. in the Riksdag, at least not a genuine one. But on the other hand, there is popular opposition and an immigration-critical tone in the media debate, as well as, of course, two major parties that went to the election pretending to want to stop immigration. It remains to be seen how long the Moderates and SD can continue with immigration with undiminished strength under such conditions, and especially now that Germany has shown that mass immigration is a completely voluntary project.