By Gunnar Schupelius
German asylum law is used for mass immigration. But that’s not what it’s made for. Anyone who wants to fundamentally change something as a politician will be silenced. It can’t stay like this, says Gunnar Schupelius.
Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) has proposed abolishing the individual right to asylum in the Basic Law. Instead, refugees should be admitted in fixed numbers (quotas). Otherwise, Germany would be overwhelmed, he said.
The SPD and the Greens did not respond to Stübgen’s suggestion in Potsdam. He was getting closer to “the right-wing extremists,” they claimed.
The parliamentary director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei, had already made a similar suggestion to Stübgen in July. He was also immediately accused of “right-wing populism”.
The politicians of the left-wing parties make it easy for themselves when they stifle the debate. But that doesn’t get us anywhere. “The eyes-closed-and-through method will not be successful,” wrote Berlin’s former governing mayor Diepgen (CDU) in the BZ
Anyone who is honest and thinks logically cannot ignore the fact that our right to asylum is being used for immigration. That’s not what it’s made for. Uncontrolled migration is becoming a serious threat to the welfare state and social peace. “Germany is at its breaking point,” says Federal President Steinmeier (SPD).
The facts speak for themselves: Up to 400,000 migrants from predominantly Muslim countries will come to Germany this year. Two thirds of them are male and under 30 years old. The federal government (SPD, Greens, FDP) wants to allow them to bring their families with them.
From January to July, the Foreign Office issued almost 77,000 visas to family members to join them, and by the end of the year there will be at least 130,000. Last year, 117,032 visas for subsequent immigration to Germany were distributed.
Even very large families are allowed to enter. The “Augsburger Allgemeine” reports on a 40-year-old Syrian who neither speaks German nor has a job. He was allowed to bring his wife and ten children from Lebanon to Germany.
The cities and municipalities no longer have any options for admission. But the ruling parties are avoiding the topic. A debate on this matter was prevented in the House of Representatives on September 7th by the Greens and the Left. The AfD had requested the debate.
Asylum was discussed in the Bundestag last Friday, but the SPD, Greens and FDP only sent their people from the second row into the race.
They don’t make the issue a top priority, even though, according to all surveys, it’s the issue that’s most on people’s minds.
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