Shelters for migrants are filling up across Germany as attitudes toward the newcomers harden

 

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Shelters for migrants are filling up across Germany as attitudes toward the newcomers harden

 

Germany announced on Wednesday it will increase police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with Poland the Czech Republic in an effort to prevent more migrants from entering the country. (September 27).

 

BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER

Updated 1:57 PM CEST, September 28, 2023

https://apnews.com/article/germany-migration-asylum-housing-22372cf1e5ece2e55c5f2e6c9d10e594

 

BERLIN (AP) — Dozens of people from around the world lined up on a sunny morning this week in front of a former mental health hospital in Berlin to apply for asylum in Germany.

 

There were two older women from Moldova. A young man from Somalia sat next to them on a bench. A group of five young Pakistanis chatted loudly, standing behind two pregnant women from Vietnam.

 

The newcomers are among more than 10,000 migrants who have applied for asylum in the German capital this year, and are coming at a time when Berlin is running out of space to accommodate them.

 

“The situation is not very good at the moment,” Sascha Langenbach, the spokesperson for the state office for refugee affairs in Berlin, said in an interview this week. “This is much more than we expected last year.”