For the first time in EU history, Germany is at the forefront of immigration suspension. Other EU countries will follow. 
Image notes, I created the image using Grok, then modified the image in Photoshop to add German text, hopefully contextually accurate.
Schengen Zone
The Schengen Area (English: /ˈʃɛŋən/ SHENG-ən, Luxembourgish: [ˈʃæŋən]) is an area encompassing 29 European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
Immigration Crackdown
Reuters reports Germany Tightens Controls at All Borders in Immigration Crackdown.
Germany’s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism.
The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement – the European Schengen zone – will start on Sept. 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday.The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said, without adding details on the controversial and legally fraught move.
The restrictions are part of a series of measures Germany has taken to toughen its stance on irregular migration in recent years following a surge in arrivals, in particular people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East.
Recent deadly knife attacks in which the suspects were asylum seekers have stoked concerns over immigration. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a knife attack in the western city of Solingen that killed three people in August.
Polls show it is also voters’ top concern in the state of Brandenburg, which is set to hold elections in two weeks.
Scholz and Faeser’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are fighting to retain control of the government there, in a vote billed as a test of strength of the SPD ahead of next year’s federal election.
“The intention of the government seems to be to show symbolically to Germans and potential migrants that the latter are no longer wanted here,” said Marcus Engler at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research.
“We Can Do This”
Does anyone recall Chancellor Angela Merkel’s comment on immigration?
For discussion, please see my September 5, 2016 post Merkel humiliated in 3rd Place Finish to AfD in State Elections; Irony of the Day
Her highness, chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a humiliating loss in German state elections on Sunday.
Merkel came in third place, to the anti-immigration, eurosceptic AfD party in her own home state in statewide elections.
Peak Merkel
Also recall my June 15, 2018 post Merkel Coalition About to Collapse Over Immigration: Peak Merkel Revisited
Horst Seehofer, Germany’s Interior Minister, threatens to start the automatic rejection of refugees by executive order – which would be the end of the coalition.
The government crisis was triggered by two unrelated events – the murder of a young girl by an immigrant, and a scandal about the granting of refugee status to illegal immigrants.
No Longer Wanted
We have gone from “We Can Do This” to “No Longer Wanted”
From Eurointelligence …
It is almost comical that as Mario Draghi presents his report on the future of Europe, Germany has the brilliant idea to re-impose border controls and suspend the Schengen system of passport-free travel. The German government has come under pressure to crack down on immigration by trying to stop refugees at the border. Nancy Faeser, the interior minister, said the reason was to protect Germany against Islamic extremism, following a series of murders and attempted murders committed by immigrants in the last few weeks. The Schengen rules require an over-riding national security interest.
The collateral damage will be huge. Austria already said it will not take in any immigrants rejected by Germany. So Austria will almost surely do the same and close its border. Nobody to the east and south-east of Germany has the physical capacity and political willingness to absorb immigrants. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia will all do the same. We assume that Switzerland, not a member of the EU but a member of Schengen, will follow. Italy has no border to close, but France does. Germany has now become an active participant in the beggar-thy-neighbour refugee policies of EU member states. Except that when Germany plays this game, it has much more serious consequences. This is a serious threat to the whole idea of Schengen. This is where the unravelling of Europe could be starting.
Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister, warned her colleagues not to endanger the EU’s migration deal, and not to succumb to the illusion that European countries can solve the refugee problem at a national level.
The border closures do not come with a change in current laws. The German border guards will have to take in anybody who mentions the word asylum. But a majority of immigrants do not. FAZ notes that Friedrich Merz wants to go much beyond the current rule. He wants the police to be able to even reject people who claim asylum. The argument he uses is that Germany’s borders only with safe countries, so it is technically impossible for anyone to claim asylum at a German land border. He also maintains that law and order within Germany have a higher priority than Germany’s obligations under international law.
Friedrich Merz is leader of the CDU and leader of the opposition to the current Traffic Light Coalition: Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens, (red, yellow, green) respectively.
No Change in Current Laws
Schengen is enshrined in treaty. No country will propose any changes.
Instead, every county will ignore the treaty on grounds of a “higher law”.
Higher Laws
Given there are now higher laws than the EU treaties, I have a question:
When does France or Italy say the same thing about budget rules? Such logic could finally spell the end of EU and Eurozone Monetary Union (EMU) rules.
I have a musical tribute.
Meanwhile, back in the states ….
More Americans Call Volume of Immigrants a ‘Critical Threat’
The Washington Post reports More Americans Call Volume of Immigrants a ‘Critical Threat’
Americans’ concerns about immigration have risen sharply this year, with half of Americans saying that the large number of immigrants and refugees entering the country is a “critical threat” to U.S. interests, up from 42 percent last fall to the highest level since 2010, according to a poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
The poll found that most Americans support two proposals laid out by former president Donald Trump: using U.S. troops to stop immigrants from coming into the United States from Mexico and expanding a wall on that border.
But a larger majority of Americans oppose Trump’s proposal to put undocumented immigrants in mass-detention camps. If elected, Trump has pledged to immediately launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
A late July Wall Street Journal poll found that voters thought Trump would handle immigration better than Harris by 53 percent to 40 percent.
Chicago Council’s poll found 50 percent of Americans say large numbers of immigrants and refugees coming into the United States is a critical threat to the country’s interests, marking the highest level in Chicago Council polling since 2010, when it was 51 percent. Concerns over immigrants as a threat peaked at 60 percent in 2002, less than one year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The United States has about 45 million immigrants, about 11 million of whom are undocumented.
“Mood on Main Street Darkens”
In the US, NFIB “Mood on Main Street Darkens” Small Business Optimism Dips
The July jump in small business optimism momentum lasted precisely one month.
What Are the Odds of Recession?
In case you missed it, please see The McKelvey Recession Indicator Triggered, But What Are the Odds?
Many eyes are on the McKelvey recession indicator. Too many? That would probably be the case if everyone believed it.
Heck, most of my own readers don’t seem to believe it. I have the odds well over 50 percent that a recession is underway. Click on the above link for discussion.
It’s Ausländer, not Einwanderer
you must remember the law is not extant of humanity, but a product of humanity. The law is simply what we all agree to beleive it is. Treaties are words often broken, history is a list of broken treaties.
The law must evolve to meet the circumstances or the law becomes irrelevant and is discarded.
Also, Italy borders Austria,Slovenia,Switzerland and France.
Even the music on this blog is first rate.
This is quite literally fake news (just like the fake image used at the beginning of the article). While I don’t agree with most of your opinions I read this blog because, as opposed to most opinion pieces nowadays, it’s mostly fact based and informed. This specific post is shameful though (unless you have taken up trolling suddenly).
Some facts (gathered from living in Germany and as an immigrant – the legal kind):
I still won’t like you or agree with your opinions more regardless of what you do with my message. But I might not lose my respect if you decide to do more thorough research on how Schengen & Europe works before feeding fantasy prompts to Grok to validate your biases.
From Eurointelliugence
“Germany has the brilliant idea to re-impose border controls and suspend the Schengen system of passport-free travel.”
That is indeed what it is.
Eurointelligence also acknowledges this: “The Schengen rules require an over-riding national security interest.” This is what Germany has used, rather than suspending Schengen. As mentioned, not the first time and certainly not the last. You could argue that this is unwarranted and they are using this as an excuse to actually suspend Schengen. That is not the argument made in the article, though. Your source is as well quite passionate/emotional about this in a way that seems to override their own arguments in favour of the panicky statements.
Time will tell, of course. I’ll be the first to let you know if I have trouble crossing borders.
Trump Suggests He’ll Flee to Venezuela If Harris Wins the Election
what a great American
This is not germane to Germany.
Unless Germany leaves the EU and ditches the Euro, none of these sort of childish exercises in making the country even less efficient, will result in anything positive.
No different from Americans: 98+% of what is being stolen from Germans, are being stolen by the central bank, and by regime connected regulation-favored leeches. Not “immigrants.”
“Immigrants” very well _may_ also have a negative impact. But even if; it’s at most 1/50th of the impact that the deadweights “making money from my home and potfoio” has. And a fraction of the impact the equally useless ambulance chasers and mandate beneficiaries have.
Those two latters, is whom all the resources/wealth once commanded by competent German people and industry have been stolen for the benefit of. Not for, at least not more than a few percent, “immigrants.”
And trivially so as well: Compare how much wealth the average “immigrant” has amassed since the Euro, compared to the average “hedge fund manager”, ambulance chaser, bankster, “investor” or even “home owner.” And that despite at least a fair share of the “immigrants” having held and performed real, value adding, jobs over the period. As opposed to simply sitting there like squeaking chicklets while the ECB and totalitarian state having robbed their more competent countrymen for their, always 100% unearned, benefit.
But it seems that, again, Keynes was right with his “not one man in a million will detect the theft” quip. You’d think Germans, of all people, would do at least a bit better. But it seems not. Good thing they, too, will be heading straight for for self inflicted irrelevance as well, just like their even more clueless Anglo partners-in-idiocy before them. One “made money from my home” rank retard at a time.
“Instead, every county will ignore the treaty on grounds of a “higher law”.”
U.S. Democrats love to say no one is above the law, while not enforcing immigration law against those illegally entering our country. Former Green Beret and military expert Michael Yon calls it an invasion and says that “life as we have known it, is over.”
The mainstream leftwing parties in Germany are as serious about their border controls as Kamela Harris is about the border wall with Mexico.
“For the first time in EU history, Germany is at the forefront of immigration suspension.”
Wait, what? I guess the change in sentiment toward the AFD, struck a nerve. Reality finally bites.
they havn’t closed the border, i cross every few weeks. they just do more passport checks. but the internal freedome of movement is still the same within europe. just they’re trying to weed out all the darkies
This issue should NEVER be a problem of being in a PARTY or not or which PARTY is in control…it is simply a matter of LAW. Of course, America ignores the RULE OF LAW and goes ahead with this border scam and neither party is proposing STRONGLY WORDED and ENCOURAGING signs with ACTUAL ACTION.
the long arc of history is one of human migration……with border guards, or none………perhaps read the late great anthropologist, david graeber’s, dawn of everything to get a primer. the southern usa border has been wide open for 400 years……….german borders are porous as hell. now the dreaded big scary muslims won’t leave. in the short term……
Tha AfD and other right wing parties gained popularity after the 2015/16 spike in refugees. Today the situation is totally manageable. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/migration-flows-to-europe/
So these measures will only be short term to put these parties back into niche status again then we can all get back to normal.
All assuming we don’t incite any new catastrophes anywhere. Letting down the palestinians or unnecessarily provoking Iran are pretty likely though.
The enemy is already inside the gate. In many parts of Germany and other European countries there are whole suburbs that are majority Muslim migrants which even allowing that over half of them are decent people still means a large minority will slit your throats if given the opportunity.
You are delusional. All those horrible rapes and killings not to mention cities burning and law enforcement officers attacked are a sign that everything is totally manageable?
Why even some of my friends that are what one might call DEI people acknowledge the situation and move to an area less “diverse”?
Europe has to choose between being totally culturally destroyed or closing the borders. For me, it’s very simple. Close the borders and kick out these so called refugees milking the welfare system.
Note that they close the border just for 6 months. The government fears loosing election so they try to show doing something and hope they will still be in power after election.
Otherwise they couldn’t care less. And after they regain the power, it will be floodgates open again.
Germany has land borders with 9 countries : Denmark, the Netherland, Belgium,
Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia and Poland. The most desirable countries in the world : Switzerland, Japan, the US, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany and the UK. Kaliningrad is 200 miles east, less than a min for mach 7. Biden failed to stop two wars that started under his watch. If Kamala takes over WWIII.
Fake image for an announced plan (not in effect yet) scheduled for only six months. More shell games
Does anyone believe in th 11 million undocumented number in the US?
Yes. But that isn’t the total amount. There’s more than 11 million.
Only am imbecile would. I believe it is in excess of 30 million
Germany had six million illegal immigrant Jews who did not assimilate. Now Germany has six million immigrant Africans who do not assimilate. Predictions about the future may be difficult but this one is not difficult.
All I ever here from the left is indigenous peoples rights. Aren’t the Europeans the indigenous people of Europe? Do they not have rights too?
Jews were fully assimilated into German culture for centuries..when they weren’t being discriminated against
NOPE. they were illegal. the nazis never broke any laws.
That’s not at all why Jews were persecuted.
Before WWII Europe and Russia had over six millions Jew. They admired Germany. Many crossed to Prussia and assimilated. There was no Poland. A few immigrated to Haifa Israel, a German naval base under the Ottoman empire. General Kress crossed the Sinai desert twice to oust the British colony in Egypt and from the occupied Suez canal. In 1922 General Allenby freed Jerusalem from the grip of Islam after 1,500 years, and took over Haifa”s port, pipeline and refinery. France got Tripoli’s refinery.. Churchill, seeking glory, didn’t split the Ottoman empire in the middle, in the Armenians territory, eastern Turkey. Stalin sent radical Jewish marxist to Palestine to build a bridgehead in the heart of the British empire, instead of killing them. The KGB was all about power.
the nazis never broke any laws. the jews were illegal. anti german. vermin. like the africans in germany today. and the mexicans in usa today. how about armbands ?
This is preparation for The Extermination https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-extinction-plan-uep
A step in the right direction. Congratulations to Germany if they can make it work. A country is not a country if it can’t protect its own identity. It will surely fall from within like Rome did when conquered Barbarians rose to political and military power.
The A students go into science and medicine. The B students go into business, and the C students go into politics.
the students who would sell their mothers run for Potus. This is what The Men Who Run the World want… venal scum … they never push back – if they do they get a private screening of the Zapruder film….
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world
C students go into politics and teaching.
D students …_______________ studies.
the A students went to wall street.
really just the smartest folks, regardless of school house grades………free money on wall street thanks to the middlebrows who don’t follow the free money……….
and the smartest people go to wall street for the free money
The government needs to stop funding NGOs. All problems would then resolve themselves.
Don’t stop at NGOs.
The speed at which the immigration policy has changed is very telling of how fast social mood has turned negative. There is no more kum-bay-yah in Europe.
Reality has set in. Talents are not equally distributed throughout populations, nor should anyone who actually believes in Darwinian evolution believe they would be. My Chinese friends would like DEI applied not only to MIT but also to the NBA.
All those purported doctors and engineers can now go back to their countries, and turn them into vibrant economies.
Since there are millions of them, the carbon footprint of Europe will drop like a stone in a blink of an eye. A green climate agenda that works.
Maybe the “elites” can go too.
A win, win, win.
How is it to the benefit of the environment to take millions of people from countries with low carbon usage/footprint and move them to developed countries with much higher carbon usage/footprints? The Sierra club used to oppose illegal immigration for that reason before they were told to get in line or else….
Temporary….and the government is only realizing this is now a problem? Don’t let them get away with what they have done.
Something Something hen house
Something barn door something horses…
It started with Brexit and will continue under the perils of unfettered immigration, the slow disintegration of the EU.
I love how what Germany is doing by ignoring a treaty is exactly what Biden & Harris are doing here in the US, ignoring US immigration law.
Wake up America. You’re sliding into the abyss.
Not at all.
Ignoring a treaty allows counterparty to do same.
Executive Branch is charged with enforcing the laws; hence impeachment of Generalísimo Mayorkas.
Its your thing! Bravo. I was thinking Peter Gabriel, bring me a higher law.
Happy happy joy joy. Sounds good in a fortune cookie. Accepting immigrants who do not assimilate because of 1500 years of differences, not so good.
And who were trying to conquer you not that many years ago not to mention…the battle of vienna.
Right. After millions are already there.