Germany Closes Its Borders to Asylum Seekers!

The first act of the CDU–CSU–SPD government led by Merz was to shut the door on refugees.

Twenty hours after taking office, Germany’s new government took radically tough measures against irregular migration.

As of May 7, 2025, migrants without valid documents at all land borders will be turned back. An asylum application will no longer suffice.

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt ordered tighter border controls and instructed that all migrants without valid papers—even if they apply for asylum—be refused entry at the border.

Thousands of additional police officers will be deployed along the roughly 4,000-km land border, manning checkpoints.

With this decision, Germany has formally revoked the verbal instruction from the Merkel era, implemented in 2015, which had granted asylum seekers the right to enter.

Under the now-cancelled practice signed off by Dobrindt, third-country nationals arriving in Germany without valid residence permits were allowed to enter if they applied for asylum. This instruction, introduced at the peak of the 2015 refugee crisis, is now void.

Source: Avrupadan