Saxony's Justice Minister Katja Meier (Greens) has objected to Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU )’s request for a fortified EU external border with Belarus.
The Belarusian ruler Lukashenko is conducting politics on the backs of people who do not set out voluntarily.
"Anyone who gets involved by isolating themselves makes people the plaything of political interests," said Meier on Thursday at MDR Aktuell.
Dresden - Kretschmer had previously said in Brussels on Tuesday that he saw fortified border fortifications as an effective means of getting a grip on the influx of refugees on the EU's external border with Belarus.
The CDU politician added: "Nobody is interested in walls, but now it is a matter of the European Union proving its ability to defend itself."
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This month, 1,600 people had already arrived.
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Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) believes that the significantly increased number of migrants entering Brandenburg via Belarus has so far been under control.
"In the month of September we have an approximate six-fold increase in the number of migrants who come to Brandenburg across the land border compared to August," said Stübgen on Thursday in the state parliament in Potsdam.
Stübgen hopes for a controlled entry despite the bottlenecks
In response to Western sanctions, the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced in the spring that he would no longer stop migrants en route to the European Union.
The number of irregular border crossings at the EU's external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border has increased since then.
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