Stricter border enforcement coming into Germany?

I entered Germany two weeks ago. Nothing different. Fairly easy.

I then went to register for EasyPass and that was easy.

I think it's going to depend where you are coming from and what passport you hold. Americans and Canadians shouldn't have too many problems.

The newest controls haven't been put into effect yet but according to reports, they're not looking for Joe (or Jill) Tourist.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/german-government-plans-boost-border-160940344.html

When we trained from Salzburg to Munich a while back they held us at the border while police walked the train. I think they were only looking for a certain type of passenger, and they were walking pretty briskly.

Some of the driving border crossings have Polizei, others do not. The A6 autobahn from France to Germany has had a station for several months and they do stop people. But the secondary roads seem to be mostly open. There isn't a stop on the Wine Road where it crosses from Bad Bergzabern to Wissembourg for example. The only time I've seen them on the trains has been when I came back from Strasbourg a couple months ago, but I don't use cross-border trains that often.

The police checking on trains isnt unique to Germany. The train from Hungary to Austria is often borded by the police at the border. They walk down the asile looking for "a type" I presume, and get off at the next stop.

It's border theatre. The equivalent of the security theatre we get at airports. It is mostly performative and only serves one purpose: Allowing politicians to claim they are doing something.

It has in fact already been tested in court, and found unlawful. So I wonder what will happen now.

Interesting perspective. I wonder what stopped the hijackings i remember as a young adult? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking

I've experienced the border checks taking place on the Munich to Salzburg corridor, happened to me twice pre-pandemic, presumably more so now but not when you cross at Passau, which I did 3 times last summer. No check at all. "They" can ask to see my passport whenever they want, makes no difference .

No idea what stopped hijackings but it definitely didn’t have anything to do with a 1 litre ziploc bag. Security is good but let’s not confuse genuine security with the theatre of 125ml shampoo bottles being binned as a huge risk.

To a certain extent yes it's border theater, but it also gives pause to folks who don't have all their documents in order (they should see a guy named Rick at Cafe Americain). They must seek other ways into a country.

The point with the border checks is the same is a with airport security.

With airport security it is simple: Anything that just means that terrorists have to change their tactics (or targets) is useless, because that is just what they should do. Which is why airport security should return to where it was in the 90ies. None, not a single one, of the measures taken since 9/11 would have prevented 9/11 from happening if they had been around then.

The same with the border checks. The Swiss police also checks trains coming in at Chiasso. They sometimes apprehend the same person multiple times per day. The if one day they do not pick him up they know that he managed to slip through, and is now probably trying to cross in to Germany. Makes for impressive numbers. But does not do anything about the core issue.

That there is no Europe wide refugee policy, that the burden unfairly falls on the Southern countries, and that those refugees have no other options...