Border controls in MV: Thousands of rejections since May 2025!

Die Bundespolizei in Pasewalk berichtet über steigende Rückweisungen an der Deutsch-Polnischen Grenze im Jahr 2025.
The federal police in Pasewalk reports about rising rejections at the German-Polish border in 2025. (Symbolbild/MMV)

Border controls in MV: Thousands of rejections since May 2025!

Pasewalk, Deutschland - The situation on the German borders has changed significantly in recent months. The new federal government under Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) pursues a clear strategy to reduce illegal migration. Intensive border controls and rejections are at the top of the agenda. A total of 4,128 unauthorized entry were found throughout Germany from May 8 to June 4, 2023, with 3,278 people being dismissed or pushed back on the border. This reports Nordkurier .

In the same period, 169 unauthorized entry were registered in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania alone. Remarkable 159 people were rejected or postponed. There was also someone among the dismissed persons who tried to get to Germany despite a reinforcement lock. In the region, three smugglers and 29 open arrest warrants were also carried out.

intensive border controls and their effects

The border controls are not new; Since October 16, 2023, they have been carried out sporadically on the German-Polish border. This measure aims to control migration. The federal police find that the figures for May and June 2025 have not yet been finally checked, but there is a certain tendency to accept the findings. This year, 629 unauthorized entry were registered by the end of May, in the previous year there were 918.

In general, the numbers of unauthorized entry have risen sharply in recent years. In 2023, according to Bamf a total of 127,549 findings, which corresponds to an increase of 38,7 percent compared to 2022. These figures illustrate how urgent the problem is that the authorities have been working for years.

The strategy of the Federal Government

The Federal Government has also decided to carry out systematic controls at all German national borders since September 2024. In this period, 22,243 unauthorized entry has already been found. A considerable part of it - 13,786 people - was rejected or pushed back. The arrests of 518 smugglers and the enforcement of 3,306 open arrest warrants also draw an idea of ​​the intensive work of the security authorities. The policy behind these measures aims to effectively limit irregular migration, as well as DetailsOrtPasewalk, DeutschlandQuellen