By Gunnar Schupelius
Distrust in refugee policy is increasing. Immigration needs to be managed and controlled, but it won’t. That is and remains the biggest problem, says Gunnar Schupelius.
Berlin is taking in more and more refugees and migrants. All shelters and shelters are overcrowded. The Senate does not know what to do and is putting up beds in the former Tempelhof and Tegel airports.
What do Berliners think about it? They are not asked about this. We wanted to know from our readers and asked in this week’s telephone ted: Can Berlin take in more refugees? Only 4.4 percent said yes. 95.6 percent of callers said Berlin was overwhelmed and couldn’t take anyone else.
This survey is not representative, so you cannot draw conclusions about the entire readership or the Berlin population. However, it is likely that the willingness to accept even more people will decrease sharply.
This is indicated by a current representative survey, the results of which were published by the daily newspaper “Die Welt”. In several European countries, the question was asked whether the admission of people from war and persecution was approved. In Germany, only 34 percent voted in favor, in other countries there were significantly more.
So are the Germans, Berliners and BZ readers hard-hearted or xenophobic? No, certainly not, the willingness to help is great in our country, as shown by the wave of asylum seekers in 2015 and in spring 2022 when the Russian war against Ukraine began.
But people are very good at assessing what works and what doesn’t. No country in Europe accepts more asylum seekers than Germany, only with regard to the Ukrainians are other countries ahead of us.
People from the Middle East and Africa have come to stay, word has gotten around. Anyone who does not receive a right of residence and has to leave the country, but refuses to leave the country, is usually not deported. This is what the federal government and the Berlin Senate want.
In many cases, it is more a question of emigration to Germany than flight. This is exactly why the benevolence decreases. Because when you can no longer tell who is in real need and who isn’t, and when the government no longer wants to tell the difference, mistrust grows.
Politicians stand up and regard uncontrolled immigration as a natural phenomenon. In reality, however, they refuse to control borders and enforce residency laws, which include deportation.
Because that’s the way it is, they don’t have to be surprised if people don’t want to take anyone in anymore. The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff (CDU), warns of a “tipping point” if the mood changes due to the overload. He points to a dangerous development.
Immigration needs to be managed and controlled, but it won’t. That is and remains the biggest problem.
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