The government is not sufficiently proactive when it comes to curbing irregular migration in the view of 75% of the German population, a survey by pollsters YouGov commissioned by dpa reveals.
The survey, conducted among 2,415 representative respondents at the beginning of the month, also found that 50% believed the government was "not doing enough to facilitate the immigration of working people," reported dpa.
On irregular migration, 14% thought the government was doing enough, while the remaining 11% expressed no opinion.
With respect to attracting skilled workers, 30% found the government was doing enough, with the remaining 30% not having a definite opinion.
An overwhelming majority of 93% see irregular migration as a problem, with just 2% taking the view that people from countries outside the European Union entering or remaining in Germany without valid documentation do not pose a problem.
While 15% see it as a minor problem, 27% regard it as a major problem, and 51% as an extremely serious problem, with just 5% undecided.
Germany's federal police, who are responsible for the country's borders, recorded 71,000 entries without documentation over the first 10 months of the year, compared with 127,500 such entries over the whole of 2023.
During this period, Germany has reintroduced physical checks at its borders with its EU neighbours – a fact that may deter human traffickers, but which also results in irregular migrants increasingly being detected directly at the borders and sent back.
People are sent back at the border only when a specific block on their entry has been imposed, or in cases where they do not apply for asylum.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
