Who actually comes to Germany from the Ukraine?

Almost 300,000 people have come to Germany from Ukraine since the Russian attack. But who exactly enters the country is hardly known. Only those who are accommodated in an asylum home or who apply for social benefits are precisely registered. It is often said that among the Ukrainian refugees there are also numerous students from Africa or the Arab world.

Since there have not been any comprehensive border controls to date, there have been no reliable figures. A response from the federal government to a request from the AfD member of the Bundestag Mariana Harder-Kühnel, now sheds some light on the matter for the first time.

Since March 15, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has also recorded persons with non-Ukrainian citizenship separately. Between March 15th and 20th, 14,706 people were registered who were processed for identification purposes. 13,391 of them had Ukraine as their main citizenship. Nigeria (168), Morocco (111), Vietnam (107), Turkmenistan (89) and Afghanistan (88) follow at a great distance. 67 people had Syrian citizenship and 44 had Iraqi citizenship.

AfD calls for border controls / CDU warns of smugglers
However, the figures should be treated with caution. In principle, anyone who had a residence permit in the embattled country can enter Germany from the Ukraine without a visa. If they do not apply for state benefits, the Federal Police will not register them according to their nationality. In principle, this also applies to all people from Ukraine who came to Germany before March 15.

In view of these data gaps, the AfD MP Harder-Kühnel calls for the immediate introduction of border controls. "At the same time, care must be taken to centrally register all refugees and migrants arriving in Germany as part of the current flight movement, so that a meaningful overall picture emerges." Harder demanded that "the right lessons should finally be learned from the asylum chaos that arose in 2015". This is a question of national sovereignty.

Union politicians had previously made similar statements. After the refusal to register all people from the Ukraine, the CDU interior politician Philipp Amthor accused Interior Minister Nancy Faser (SPD) of seeing it “too laxly”. Refugees must be helped, “but I think we also have to know, who comes to our country.” At the moment, gangs of people smugglers are “trying to jump on this migration movement as free riders,” Amthor warned.

Source: Junge Freiheit