Germany, Poland, Czech Republic start task force
on illegal immigration
Police in the 3 countries will work together to combat
illegal migration and to identify smuggler routes.
BY LAURA
HÜLSEMANN
SEPTEMBER
29, 2023 3:14 PM CET
Germany,
Poland and the Czech Republic are establishing a joint task force to crack down
on “inhumane smuggling crime” and illegal immigration, German Interior Minister
Nancy Faeser announced on Friday.
“Together,
we want to smash the cruel business of smuggling gangs that make maximum profit
from the plight of people and smuggle them across borders in a life-threatening
way,” Faeser said in a statement Friday.
“That is
why we have now agreed to step up joint patrols by the police forces there with
our federal police on Czech and Polish territory as well,” she added.
The joint
task force — which Faeser coordinated with Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan
and Poland’s Mariusz Kamiński — will be headed by Europol’s EMPACT program.
German, Czech and Polish police will work together on each other’s territories
to curb illegal immigration and to identify smuggler routes.
This is
Faeser’s latest attempt to control illegal immigration after she announced
temporary controls on Germany’s borders with Poland and the Czech Republic on
Wednesday. Her move comes as Germany’s mainstream parties have increasingly
panicked and changed their stance on migration, amid the growing popularity of
the far-right party AfD.
With
elections in Germany’s state of Hesse next week, Faeser — a member of
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and who is half-heartedly running for
prime minister of Hesse — is trying to wade in safe waters. If she does not win
the Hesse elections, she wants to keep her post as interior minister of
Germany, she announced.
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