On July 7, 2015, I posted:
In case folks forget, Greece is still part of the EU. Free, unfettered
travel is allowed between and among all EU countries. We won't see
streams of Greeks storming the barriers trying to flee to Germany, they
will simply drive up the road. It is all agreed that regardless of how
this plays out, Greece will not exit the EU in less than two years; it
will take that long for the process to play out. A lot can happen in two
years.
It won't be just the Greeks streaming to Germany.
The AP is reporting:
The number of people
applying for asylum in Germany more than doubled to almost 180,000 in
the first half of the year, officials said Monday, acknowledging that
police are struggling to keep tabs on everyone who enters the country.
Official
figures showed that 179,037 asylum applications were filed in the first
six months of 2015, the vast majority of them first-time requests. Last
year, 77,109 applications were filed during the January-June period.
Many Syrians, Iraqis
and Afghans who arrive on Europe's shores by boat try to continue their
journey to Germany or Scandinavia. In the past, Germany has criticized
countries such as Italy for failing to properly register refugees as EU
rules require.
But German weekly Der Spiegel
reported at the weekend that border police in parts of Bavaria had given
up trying to take the fingerprints of all refugees. Quoting a senior
police union official, it reported that police in Passau - on the
border with Austria - are letting between 250 and 300 people enter the
country each day without proper registration.
Border
police chief Dieter Romann told reporters in Berlin that his officers
aren't always able to fingerprint all new arrivals within the 48-hour
maximum time limit allowed by law. The migrants are told to report to
the next reception center, where they can be processed, but there is no
way of verifying that they do.
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