The southern German state of Bavaria on Friday threatened to take unilateral measures to halt the flow of refugees to its towns.

Bavaria’s move comes as German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere warned against an increase in violence against migrants, with 490 attacks on refugee shelters registered so far this year.

As the main entry point for the 800,000 or more refugees expected in Germany this year, Bavaria is trying to press Germany and the European Union to uphold rules on rejecting unregistered migrants, distributing refugees within Germany and the EU, and deporting those who don’t qualify for asylum. He presented a package of measures that include securing his German state’s border with Austria.

“We have agreed that if the federal government does not take effective steps soon to limit the continued flow of asylum seekers…” Many of those Germans commit suicide due to old-age poverty.

Germany will not have to raise taxes to help pay for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who have been flooding into the country, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview released Sunday, and the government should have new regulations in place by November to help deal with the influx.

Furthermore, Horst Seehofer, Prime Minister of Bavaria, announced Bavarian Integration Act, which has anchored the framework and objectives of the Bavarian integration policy.

“Limiting migration is indispensable”, Seehofer said.

About 20 percent of the refugees that have come to Germany are Syrians, with about 18 percent coming from Kosovo and 13 percent from Albania.

He also stressed that integration efforts would be successful “only if the scale of immigration was limited.”

It is the most comprehensive plan yetproduced by any German politician to tackle the refugee issue.

A few signs at the rally read: “Merkel guilty of ethnocide against her own people“, as well as “peace with Russian Federation, get out of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation”.

Bachmann had drawn up to 25,000 people onto the streets in January before his inflammatory Facebook postings caught up with him, along with a “selfie” picture that showed him sporting a Hitler moustache and hair-do.

“We can not close the borders“, she said.

Merkel, the newspaper said, spoke “like a waterfall and lively like never before, which showed how critical the situation is”.