The number of illegal immigrants to Brandenburg via Oder and Neisse has not stopped for weeks.
Two cities on the German-Polish border are calling for help and orderly structures.
Guben - In view of the increasing number of migrants on the German-Polish border, the town hall chiefs of Frankfurt (Oder) and Guben are calling for more support from the federal authorities. The mayor of Frankfurt, René Wilke (left), told the dpa that the federal police must be significantly strengthened and have a more continuous presence in order to carry out random checks. "This is also important for the arriving refugees, so that they are immediately put into orderly structures that offer them prospects instead of permanent illegality."
For the population of his city in the Spree-Neisse district, the situation is absolutely unsatisfactory, criticized Guben Mayor Fred Mahro (CDU). Guben has around 17,000 inhabitants. The residents' feeling of security also suffers from massive immigration. "Here at the level of the federal police, with the support of the state police, an immediate response is to be made with an increased presence."
In the past week, the federal police took into custody 699 unauthorized people who had come to Brandenburg via Belarus.
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced at the end of May in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU.
Since then, reports of attempted irregular border crossings at the EU's external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border have increased.
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As a spokesman for the federal police said on Friday, the women, men and children who had entered illegally were traveling in several groups between Autobahn 11 near Pomellen and Bundesstraße 104 near Löcknitz.
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Council complains about a lack of empathy for refugees
The Saxon Refugee Council has complained about a lack of empathy for those seeking protection who are currently increasingly coming to Germany across the border from Belarus and Poland.
This mainly affects people from Iraq and Syria.
"The life-threatening everyday life of two destroyed countries - like the disaster in Afghanistan - seems to have been dealt with, the need for support for people plagued by conflict fades into the background," said Dave Schmidtke from the Refugee Council in Dresden on Friday.
Council complains about a lack of empathy for refugees
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, around 4,500 illegal entries have been found in eastern Germany since August.
Many people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are among those seeking protection.
Mahro reported that he saw immigrants being apprehended by the federal police.
These children and adults were in poor physical and psychological condition.
"The first thing to do here is to act in a humanitarian manner and secure accommodation," he demanded.
The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, is currently urging the introduction of temporary border controls to Poland.
The mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) considers the union demand to be too vague.
If border controls mean creating superstructures at the border crossing and checking all border crossings, he thinks that is wrong, said Wilke.
That would expose a lot of people to stress.
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