Germany Restores Border Guards First Time Since Soviet Union Collapse
Written by Chriss W. Street
Germany’s political establishment in a desperate move after being crushed by right-wing conservatives winning almost one third of the vote in two state elections on September 1st, just re-instated Eastern border guards for the first time since the 1990 fall of the Soviet Union to stop a migrant crisis from causing European regime change.
The European free-trade Schengen Area is composed of twenty-nine nations, a population of more than 450 million people, and covers 1,774,190 square miles. In 2023, Schengen Area was the most visited destination in the world, with over 10 million Schengen visas, more than half a billion passenger visits. Supporters claim that as a result of the Schengen Areaagreements, tourism now contributes close to 10% of the European Union's GDP and provides jobs to about 22.6 million people.
The German led Schengen open-borders initiative allows 1.7 million people to commute across an internal European border to work each day, with some regions constituting up to a third of the workforce crossing a border each day. Of the 1.3 billion Schengen crossings last year, 57 million were due to road transport of goods worth $2.5 trillion.
The Schengen good news is that as a result of the abolition of internal border controls and a common visa trade policy, Europeans enjoy internal cost savings on trade due to open borders that varies between 0.42% to 1.59%, depending on geography, trade partners, and other factors. Globalist business interests outside of the Schengen Area also benefit tremendously from only having to clear import trade in one entry EU nation, then they can seamlessly distribute across all 29 Schengen member countries.
The Schengen bad news is the ascendant German right wing-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) rebellion is now favored to win a 28.1 percent election majority in the populous Brandenburg state on September 22nd. The AfD threatens to displace the establishment leading Social Democratic Party(SPD), that has led every Brandenburg election since the 1990reunification and won an outright majority of the vote in 1999.
The centrist SPD and its coalition CDU partner are desperately hoping the CDU polling at 16.7 percent can hold on to stop the AfD. The market-liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the progressive Greens are both on the verge of not qualifying for any Bundestag parliamentary seats if they do not receive at least 5 percent of the vote.
The latest German Police Crime statistics (PKS) from 2022 show that the number of crime suspects overall number of crime suspects rose by 10.7 percent compared to the prior year. Out of the 2,093 782 crime suspects, over a million (1,309 906) had German citizenship and almost 783,876) were suspects without German citizenship.
The numbers of German crime suspects rose by 4.6 percent, while the numbers of non-German crime suspects spiked up by 22.6 percent. Police report that within the “non-German”category, 310,062 were migrants, and the numbers of migrant crime suspects rose by 35 percent from the previous year. For immigrants suspected of committing crimes in 2021, 86.4percent were male, 57.7 percent were under 30 years old and over half were from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Schengen Area members have the limited right under Article 25to immediately respond without notification to a threat by reintroducing border control for 10 days, and with a 4-week-notice they can temporarily reintroduce border controls for up to 30 days.
But with globalists panicked over a pending right-wing electoral humiliation, Germany is willing to violate the same Schengen Area open-border agreements they advocated for by announcing that beginning September 16th they will implement universal border controls for the next 6 months.