The leader of the German opposition “copies” Trump’s campaign: If elected, I will deport immigrants!

The leader of the German opposition has pledged to tighten border controls and increase deportations if he becomes chancellor after next month’s elections, a day after an Afghan man was arrested for a knife attack that left two people dead.

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative CDU/CSU alliance leads in the polls, said he would not allow attacks like the one in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday to become a “normal issue.”

The suspect in the attack, who was arrested immediately afterward, is a 28-year-old Afghan man with a history of psychiatric issues and violence. The man’s asylum process had been closed at his request after two years, according to Bavarian authorities. He had stated last month that he would leave Germany voluntarily but failed to do so and continued to receive psychiatric treatment.

Merz stated that “all illegal migrants” should be turned back at the border, including people seeking protection from war or political persecution, and that he was prepared to impose a “de facto ban” on entry for anyone without valid entry documents.

He called for an increase in the number of migrant detention centers, mentioning the suitability of empty warehouses, converted shipping containers, or unused barracks.

He added that people caught by the police committing criminal acts, who had been ordered to leave but refused to comply, “must be detained … and deported as quickly as possible.”

Merz also sharply criticized the EU’s asylum and migration laws, calling them “dysfunctional,” and called for a sharp departure from the bloc’s Schengen principle of free movement. He vowed to impose permanent controls on all nine of Germany’s borders with neighboring countries if elected on February 23.

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