From BILD:

From today, ALL migrants will be prevented from crossing Germany’s land borders illegally – even if they claim asylum. Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (54, CSU) has given the order …

At midday, Dobrindt gave instructions to the Federal Police to tighten border controls and increase pushbacks in the event of illegal entry …

Dobrindt has also revoked a verbal instruction to the Federal Police issued by former Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (71, CDU) in 2015. According to this order … “Third-country nationals without documents legitimising residence and with a request for asylum must be allowed entry.”

Dobrindt has put a stop to this.

For ten years, anybody at all could enter Germany. All he had to do was claim asylum at our borders, and if he was smart, he would also make himself almost impossible to deport by destroying his identification documents. Migrants could do this even though none of them had any right to asylum in Germany. Asylum, after all, has to be claimed in the first EU country asylees reach. Merkel set aside this so-called “Dublin rule” in 2015, to reduce pressure on EU border states like Greece and Italy, but her act opened the generous German social welfare state to the entire developing world, serving only to pull more migrants into Europe generally.

As BILD notes, these policies have been in place for 3,533 days. Probably more than 3 million migrants – the vast majority of them would-be asylees – have come to the Federal Republic on the strength of them. Our politicians told us for years that nothing could be done about this, and now Dobrindt has done something. He has done something really big.