Germany must build border fence, says police union chief

[unhappycamper]

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-must-build-border-fence-says-police-union-chief/a-18789260

A German police union chief has called for a fence to be built along the country's border to stem the flow of migrants. Rainer Wendt told the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper that other countries would then follow suit.

Germany must build border fence, says police union chief
18.10.2015

In an interview with the Sunday newspaper "Welt am Sonntag," Wendt insisted that tough measures - like the construction of a fence along the border with Austria - were vital for the country "to carry out serious border controls."

He said the move would trigger a chain reaction in other European countries, which have seen hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and elsewhere flood over their borders.

"If we close our borders in this way, Austria will also close the border with Slovenia. That's exactly the effect we need," Wendt, the chairman of the German Police Union (DPolG), is quoted as saying.

He voiced support for Germany's plans to create temporary migrant transit zones along its border, which would see people filtered according to their likelihood of gaining asylum. But he said that would only work with a frontier sealed by a new fence.

[HassleCat]

1. Germany is the place

Everybody who heads for Europe seems to want to settle in Germany. It's been a problem for several years, but now it's becoming a real crisis. Germany cannot take all the refugees in the world. I don't know if a border fence is the right way to manage the problem, but it's one of those "simple" or "common sense" solutions.