Germany humiliated as country caught red-handed ‘dumping’ migrants | World | News
Germany is accused of secretly dropping off immigrants to the Netherlands at night as tensions over immigration escalate. Europe has long been a magnet for immigrants seeking better life opportunities for themselves and their families.
Last year, there were approximately 239,159 illegal crossings at the borders of the European Union. One of the largest immigrant groups were Syrians, accounting for 44,237 of the total. statista.com Germany is one of the country’s preferred countries for immigrants; Many people remember Angela Merkel’s decision to accept hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees after the civil war in 2015.
The then German Chancellor famously declared “we will govern” at a press conference on August 31 of that year. But this is not a tinge of emotion from current Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who joked during a campaign event in January that ‘we won’t succeed’.
Under his rule, the government restricts immigration in an attempt to outmaneuver the far-right Alternative for Germany Party, which has successfully weaponized immigration.
It seems that German authorities are using every possible means to rid the country of immigrants, including smuggling immigrants across the border into neighboring Netherlands.
Investigation from Dutch newspaper De Gelderlander It was revealed that Germany left 158 people to Dutch border towns in the last three months without notifying local authorities.
The media investigated after video footage of people being pushed out of a German police van in Venlo was shared on social media in the middle of the night earlier this year.
It is claimed that in October alone, German police released 63 immigrants to the Netherlands in this way.
Local residents of Heerenberg, a city on the Dutch-German border, reported strangers approaching them to borrow phones or help them connect to WI-FI.
A Dutch government spokesman insisted that these so-called “cold transfers” were part of binding bilateral agreements between European countries.
“Hot and cold transfers have been taking place for years, regardless of the resumption of border controls,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Asylum and Migration.
The ministry stated that 690 foreign nationals were transferred from Germany to the Netherlands between December 2024 and September this year.
