Germany begins imposing checks on its nine land borders | DW News 

So instead of doing this on the EU external borders, we are doing this for internal borders. Absolute geniuses

I traveled between Wien and Munich this past Thursday by rail, and the Polizei were checking Passports and identity papers before entering Germany. Several persons were removed and detained.

Germany already let 3 Million in… The border isn’t the issue.

Poland condems it? They are checking borders for years from Lithuania which is an EU country.

This is only negatively affecting EU citizens, while "asylum" seekers will still be able to live in Germany indefinitely.

"Will last for 6 months" The German government said it will keep the checks for as long as the EU borders will fail to prevent illegal immigration. This means the checks will be permanent.

"There Is Nothing Racist Or Xenophobic About Putting Your Own Citizens First , And Choosing Who Comes Into Your Country"... 💯%

What a clowns show. They will still let them in if they say Asylum which is written on the paper they got beforehand.

The problem are the borders at the schengen perimeter, not the internal borders.

Hold on, Germany does it and it's ok, other countries do it and then they're called far right and anti human rights?

4.40 They can simply say the word "asylum" and Germany has an obligation to process them. What a waste of time.

The rest of the country's in the EU should follow Germany 🇩🇪 and do this for a period

Im from the Netherlands. I say GOOD. I have a passport like a normal person so i have nothing to worry about. Security is no joke as we have seen too many times.

As a Dutch citizen I fully support the Germans.

When Hungary or Poland does that Germany cries out loud: closing borders is a violation of this or that. When they do it, its national security. Such glaring double standard shows germany's hypocrisy.

From the north of Germany, here in Denmark we were meet with outrage from Germany a few years back when we did something similar, but I say go for it all EU should reinstate border control

too little , too late

Germany has all the rights to protect its borders by having strict border checks to avoid illegal migration, hope this stays forever.

Why are so many people coming to Europe? Because Germany invited them all. And because the party is now too full, other countries have to take care of the invited guests.

Question: why does Germany allow those looking to apply for asylum into thr country when there is no war in any of Germany's neighboring country?! Can't they request asylum in that neighboring country? Just asking.

So it took Germany this long with so many crimes to finally decide to actually have borders. Why is the European Union suddenly without borders? I thought freedom of movement was within the EU, not a universal thing.

If you don’t look European, you will be stop simple 😂

Terrorists have got into Germany, France and the UK because of the failure of their respective governments to protect their citizens. Immigrants have been encouraged by these governments to come into their countries with little if any control. This is to drive down the wages of low skilled work such that native low skilled workers cannot earn enough to support a family. Germany, France and the UK need to learn from Poland and Hungary who have strict controls on immigration to keep safe their cultures. Businesses need to rely on immigrants less and return to practices of old in investing in their country, their region and their people. Governments should strictly control international companies for the sake of their people.

Issue is already inside. 😂

The same Germany which started wilkommenskultur back in 2015 and lectured Poland and Hungary because they didn't want to let everyone in without documents. The level of hypocrisy is unbelievable.

too little too late ... still a massive W

The UK has lost billions because of long waiting times at ports to ship to the EU.... and now Germany is doing it voluntarily. So dumb, the delays will be so long

Imagine a country protecting it's borders. Shock horror.

Good job Germany! the entire European Union should start protecting its borders.

Now kick out all the ones who got through

This is like closing the doors after the robbers have entered your house.

Only 19 million have passed, what's another 300,00😂

What about the Venom is inside Germany

Schengen needs to be restructed, every country should be able to control its own borders.

This neighbor, and everyone I know, living in Poland: By all means!! this should have started years ago.

What is wrong for checking passports. It makes total sense. Everywhere in europe should be doing this.

As a non German, i applaud the Germans Hope my home country doesnthe same aginst the syruans and afghans

AFD did a good job, the governing coalition is so scared that they make a rational border policy.

Wonderful Germany is 100% correct to make the world respect German borders

Yesterday I was coming from a wedding from Warsaw. We had to wait 4 HOURS sitting on the border, Ind a HUGE traffic jam, where we were able to move 250 meters per hour. The whole city was in a complete gridlock, caos everywhere, people driving on the wrong hand out of despair, city live completely disrupted - people were not abe to drive from the supermarket parking lot, ambulances could not reach the hospital. I had a 3 year old child with me, we have to have her urinate on the sidewalk twice, like an animal. I recorded the whole ordeal on my dashcam and plan to pursue legal action. This is an abuse and a violence on our rights. I will NERVER, EVER vote again for the SPD. (BTW, we are all Germans in a german car - so this stupidity in an attack to our citizen rights as well.)

Good job Germany from a southern neighbor. I hope we all follow.

What’s the point if anyone can pass freely not via roads.

The one's who created the problem by asking immigrants to come are saying the problem isn't ours 😂😂😂 come to Greece,France,Italy Spain and start checking the borders

How do they know who is sitting in the car or driving the car to stop them in the first place? 🙄opps I just saw a big van pass! It’s some of the legal ones you allow to seek asylum that do harm to Germany. Those who want to enter illegally know what borders to pass.

It is a good and welcome development, only a country with careless behavior doesn't conduct checks in its borders.

Just a suggestion not a criticism but people smuggling is called human trafficking in English.

I'm Romanian and I'm glad Germany is imposing border checks on Austria.

About time, Germany

People complain about immigration, however if your people decide to have a birthrate of

There is still free travel for all EU and legal citizens. There is nothing wrong with checkpoints. Checkpoints are good for everything not just immigration. They help with drunk drivers and other activities such as missing children., smugglers, and other criminal activities.

Politicians putting on a show to fool people, but then why not? It's enough to go through the commentaries to see that plenty buy it, even though in this same video they explain that if someone comes for asylum, they are welcome in. People are going to wait in queues and nothing will really happen. I've gone through these checks plenty of times and it's nothing more than an annoying show that wastes normal people's time... and I'm pretty sure also lots of money

Hmm... should we go with "Ha-Ha"... or "Told you so" ?

If any European conservatives govt did this it would be labeled Racist and Fascist. I hope they now learned not to be wimps. The public expects more and not less from the conservative parties when they are in power.

Spate Aber gut!

From WC USA, I think the German’s have every right to check the people coming into their country! I hope they are also checking the trucks coming into Germany! In the USA many illegal aliens are brought in by truck and only a percentage of those trucks are checked by the Border Patrol, so many illegals are able to enter that way!

If external borders are not enforced, the interior borders have to be.

Kenyans in Germany, we are coming 🇰🇪

Should it even be a news if someone’s trying to protect their own home? Let alone the criticism! Also, this whole free movement is for legal citizens or immigrants, right? Why this hue and cry over controlling illegals?

simple the EU countries should just impose any german citizens wanting to go to other eu countries

A bit too late I would say. Germany opened up all doors and even worse, called people to just come… without ANY BACK GROUND CHECK. Now the problem is here already. Honestly, I don’t give a damn if another countries complains, it is a security internal issues and I strongly suggest Italy, England to do the same.

Sehr Gut

Too little too late, but its a beginning. Thank you. ❤

this is too little too late germany is starting to fall already

Shutting the stable door after the horses have bolted.

35k entered Spain since January and similar numbers in Italy and Greece. But they can't close their borders because the EU does not allow it.

Been recently crossing the Poland-Germany border, and what happens in reality is they're making all the vehicles move into a single lane and slow down to 20km/h. So that they're looking through the windows of every passing car at the skin color of their passengers. This way the pull over and perform document checks only within the specific spectrum range. DW journalist was too shy to tell the truth.

This whole European open border thing is a weird concept for me. When they came up with this it never occurred to them that people were going to milk the system? It wasn't the Europeans to be fearful of but other people that would take see ways to take advantage of the system.

EU seems getting seperated

It’s hard to fix now

Was passiert eigentlich wenn sie Migranten aufgreifen? Zurückgewiesen wird nicht?!

I think the EU should close borders, reevaluate things, clean up and then if you still want and CAN. Open them with lots of caution. What was wrong with keeping them in Rawanda anyway? Why jeopardise your own people for someone else?

Mindless nonsense, politically compensating for decades of inaction on the Schengen borders.

This is not something new. I live near border of Netherlands and in most Sundays I visit NL, and plenty of time border police check IDs when I'm coming back. Last December I visited Austria and didn't have the documents. I show a photo of it and they get confirmed that with their system and no questions asked.

Why now and not 10 years ago? What has changed in the last years?

Nothing wrong in checking out borders they did not impose full restrictions, right? So where is the problem

If Switzerland, Austria and Hungary would do their part that wouldn't be necessary.

These checks are about to be throughout the EU expect them getting off your plane on holiday destinations not just Germany ! They don’t want over stayers ! 90 days then goodbye ! Break the rules and you may never get back into any EU country !

Germany exposed chicks on all borders😂

There were similar border or near-border checks when entering Germany for months if not even more than a year. I drive there from time to time. Usually they just show me to continue driving. Only once they asked for documents. The whole conversation lasted for 30 seconds and they wished a pleasant trip. No big deal.

Well done Germany, the UK is just one big open border as we have had aholes in charge for years

Why only six months? Please do this permanently and don't hesitate being strict.

Geert Wilders and the Dutch Minister of Asylum Marianne Faber said on Dutch television that they are happy with the German border controls. Wilders said that we should have done this earlier too, but were always thwarted by the left-wing parties. According to the left-wing parties, the EU would never allow this, well Wilders says it can, look at Germany. The Dutch Minister of Asylum has also offered Germany to send the Dutch Royal Gendarmerie to the border for cooperation.

A forest does not have border guards.

so muss es sein, anders kann es nicht weitergehen

Finaly: R.I.P Schengen. 🇳🇱💪

It's all theater they're already in the country😢

...well Germany let many millions immigrants concisely in...hello?

Well, it adds! I don't think it's a bad measure. We're in an emergency, and the rest of the serious countries will follow, creating a safety net between countries.

I went to Germany from the Netherlands today, specifically Enschede to Munster, and did not see any checks.

For the last 3 years I traveled to Germany 4 times checking all there

Too late, the Trojan army is already well established within your borders.

"Wir zu früh alt, zu spät klug erhalten!"

How about we protect our external borders instead of this performative circus?

As they prepare to welcome 250.000 Kenyans... Make it make sense!

The Shengen zone and EU have failed their own borders. Time to act

I understand the sentiment of the concerned germans. However, would it not be more logical to impose border restrictions at the border with the EU and not on individual member country's borders? The whole reason the EU works is b/c of the free borders between member countries. Re-instituting border checks nullifies any advantage of that arrangement.

Insulting security theatre. The EU countries bordering yours must think you've gone a bit soft in the head

Need to start checking papers inside borders

I suggest that German border Police make some border passer by buy a VW randomly. Doing so it makes the Border control more fun and who knows may be VW doesn’t have to close any factory in Germany by this fun measure.

germany has every right to defend itself.