Illegal entry in Germany: Surprising decline 2023!

Illegal entry in Germany: Surprising decline 2023!

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Deutschland - The debate about illegal migration to Germany remains a hot iron in 2025. Figures show that there was a decline last year, with 3,300 unauthorized entry recorded, which means a decrease of 30 percent compared to 2022 when 4,800 people still wanted to enter Germany illegally. This reported Süddeutsche.de .

The head of the Federal Police Inspection Rosenheim, Stefan Kurth, explained this during a security discussion in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district office. His inspection is responsible for the region, including Rosenheim, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is interesting that in 2023 mostly Turkish citizens, especially Kurds, tried to enter illegally, while in 2022 Syrians in particular rely on their chances.

The conditions at the borders

The various measures for entry monitoring have also shown noticeable effects. According to tagesschau.de , 22,243 unauthorized entry have been found within a few months since the systematic border controls. In addition, 13,786 people were rejected without valid papers and 518 smugglers were arrested.

The federal police also report a significant decline in the incorporation of smugglers. In 2023 there were 161 arrested smugglers, while the number in 2024 dropped to only 93. At the same time, cross -border travel traffic plays a crucial role, because 70 percent of illegal entry takes place in this way, while 30 percent try to cross the border via rail traffic.

political measures and their effects

However, the tightened measures at the border area are not without criticism. In a discussion, Karsten Engler, a migration researcher, expressed that the figures for rejections are "non -transparent and selective". This leads to a lively discussion about the relevance of these statistics in the context of German asylum policy. As already ZDF , the number of asylum applications in Germany after the tightening of border controls increased easily and could not always be a sign that the striker politics is not always achieved desired effects.

The accounting figures for the asylum applications show over 350,000 applications for 2023 and around 250,000 for 2024, while the forecast for 2025 is around 160,000. This development illustrates the challenges that politics faces when it comes to handling irregular migration. More stable conditions in countries of origin, improved cooperation within the EU and stricter regulations in neighboring countries also contribute to reducing migration flows.

whether the current measures and their costs, which amount to around 27.6 million euros by the end of 2024, will actually bring the desired success in the long term. Regardless of the number of rejections, one thing shows one thing: the topic of migration will continue to employ German politics and drive the discussions about the borders of Europe.