Surge in Illegal Border Crossings in Switzerland: German Union Urges for Tighter Border Controls – SchengenVisaInfo.com

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With smugglers considering Switzerland as a business model, the country’s authorities are experiencing an influx in the number of illegal entries, thus bringing to light the need to tighten the entry rules and impose stricter border controls.

The  German Police Union (DPolG) also emphasised the need to tighten border controls in Switzerland.

A report provided by the Schwabische revealed that in the past two months alone, the number of illegal entries between Lake Constance and Basel increased sharply. Of the 7,587 unauthorised entries that the federal police registered in January, a total of 1,410 were registered in Switzerland, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

The figures show that this is hardly less than the 1,466 people who were arrested coming from Austria, while the Austrian-German border has been a migration hotspot since 2015.

In addition, authorities in Switzerland have revealed that the number of detections at the German-Swiss border has quadrupled from 2,512 registered in 2021 to 10,472 recorded last year. Such figures show that detections at the German-Swiss border have surged significantly.

“Smugglers have discovered Switzerland as a business model,” the head of the German Police Union (DPolG), Ralph Kusterer, pointed out in this regard.

Criticism also came from the CDU parliamentary group in the Stuttgart State parliament.

“We stand for an orderly refugee policy. That also means that migration policy cooperation with Switzerland must not be a one-way street,” Manuel Hagel, head of the CDU parliamentary group in the Stuttgart state, pointed out in this regard.

Authorities in Switzerland as well as those in Germany, agreed on an action plan for more cooperation on migration and border protection; still, its probation in practice is still pending.

In this regard, Member of the Bundestag from Ulm and chairman of the Greens in the interior committee Marcel Emmerich mentioned the fact that people in Switzerland have the opportunity to file an asylum application. Still, the country does not permit people to take such a decision.

The number of persons who attempt to reach Switzerland by crossing the country’s border with Italy is also high.

Previously, it was reported that over 2,776 migrants attempted to cross the Italian-Switzerland Ticino border in January this year.

Besides, authorities in Switzerland recorded nearly 52,000 irregular entries last year, a significant increase compared to the figures registered in 2021, while the most important number of them were nationals of Morocco and Afghanistan.

The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (BAZG) data revealed that the figures surged notably from 18,859 recorded in 2021 to 52,077 registered last year.

Last year alone, authorities in Switzerland received a total of 1,681 applications for asylum.

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