Until now, such proposals have only been known from the ivory tower: There are numerous vacancies in Germany, so we need more immigration – and the problem is solved. As if the hundreds of thousands who have been coming to the country for years could meet the need for skilled workers. If you can't find these forces in this country, you will undoubtedly have to look abroad. But purposeful.

The blanket recognition of asylum seekers, as demanded by Thuringia's Prime Minister Ramelow (Left Party), is anything but pragmatic and humane: the human being as a filler. This is nothing more than soothing conscience at the expense of the citizen.

Not everyone can stay permanently

In addition, such a blind policy provides a further incentive for anyone who can to come to Germany. This would not lead to a flourishing labour market – also for Thuringia – but to unrest. There are already more than enough of them in the municipalities.

There is nothing to be said against streamlining procedures and finally paying more attention to ensuring that exit obligations as well as humanitarian obligations are enforced. Every persecuted person and every victim of war enjoys protection. But not everyone who comes can stay permanently. No one can do the impossible, not even Germany.

This country has a fundamental interest in ensuring that the European area of justice is already visible at its external border. The fence is a sign of this. It marks a line that every country in the world knows and protects, especially every country of immigration. It doesn't matter only in states where no one stays voluntarily anyway.

The jokes in the pseudo-progressive milieu about the philistine with his hunter's fence are made by those who choose very carefully for themselves and do not deal with everything and everyone. Yes, it's time for Germany to become more international. Normal in the sense that it respects people, the law – and itself.