Monday, October 25, 2021
When registering in Germany
Belarus migrants are distributed more quickly
Migrants who flee from Belarus via Poland to Germany usually end up in Brandenburg. The authorities there are then responsible for the initial reception. That should change – a more rapid distribution of the refugees to other federal states is planned.
The planned faster distribution of people who come to Germany illegally via Belarus and Poland is expected to start in the first week of November. A spokesman for the Berlin Federal Police Directorate said this was currently in preparation. More capacities should be available. There are also plans to keep heated rooms available for the initial registration by the federal police.
The officials should work with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf), which will take over the distribution of the people to other federal states. At the moment, people who come to Brandenburg via Belarus and Poland are initially registered in the initial reception facility in Eisenhüttenstadt. This involves a safety check, a corona test and the first supply. Only later will it be distributed to other federal states.
In order to relieve the initial reception in Brandenburg, State Interior Minister Michael Stübgen of the CDU had agreed with Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, according to his own statements, that the registration would be improved so that only refugees who stayed there would be admitted to Brandenburg.
More than 6000 border crossings
The private radio station 91.7 Oderwelle reported on Thursday evening that the central processing facility in Frankfurt Oder is expected to go into operation in November. Between the beginning of the year and October 21, the Federal Police registered a total of 6,162 illegal entries via the Belarus route. The focus is on the German-Polish border.
Within two days, almost 500 people came to Germany illegally on the new migration route. In response to Western sanctions, the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced in the spring that he would no longer stop migrants en route to the European Union. Since then, the number of irregular border crossings at the EU’s external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border has increased.