Refugee families in front of accommodation at the former Tegel Airport Photo: Ralf Guenther
From Hildburg Bruns
About 60 Ukrainians and 40 asylum seekers from other countries arrive in Berlin every day. BZ editor Hildburg Bruns on the Senate’s plans to accommodate refugee children in an emergency school.
Berlin’s governor Kai Wegner speaks of a reality check. The entire Senate must shoulder the accommodation and integration of refugees. He certainly also has in mind how only CDU Social Senator Mario Czaja was slapped down in 2016 for the queues of freezing refugees in front of the Lageso.
Much has been improved since then. But behind the lightweight walls in the Tegel arrival center there is still a lot of frustration: families have been living there for up to seven months in suspended bunk beds. Fortunately, the Senate now wants to make offers for the children.
About 60 Ukrainians and 40 asylum seekers from other countries arrive in Berlin every day. How the flow of illegal border crossings could at least die down is something that is currently being debated in Brandenburg. Spot checks and veiled manhunts for smugglers instead of stationary controls like in Bavaria?
The numbers will tell in the coming months.