Once heralded for its open asylum policies that protected millions fleeing violent conflicts between 2014 and 2016, Germany has installed checkpoints at the country's land borders.
Once heralded for its open asylum policies that protected millions of people fleeing violent conflicts between 2014 and 2016, Germany—the keystone of Europe's free movement zone—has now installed checkpoints at all of the country's land borders.The center-left government led by Prime Minister Olaf Scholz justified the extraordinary measures last month as a way to mitigate irregular migration and protect the public from violent extremists.
And while this might be understood as backlash against his draconian border policies, incendiary rhetoric, and prohibitions on Muslims and refugees, many people who might have otherwise opposed immigration also felt that there was a greater amount of border security.Of course, Trump's wall on the U.S. southern border did far less to curb flows than the 2020 pandemic.
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