By Gunnar Schupelius
Municipalities are overburdened with asylum seekers, and the government is warning of illegal migration. At the same time, it makes Germany a magnet for even more uncontrolled immigration, says Gunnar Schupelius.
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faser (SPD) is constantly warning of increasing migration. Only on Thursday did she say that “more people were coming to Europe via the Mediterranean and the Balkan route”. The states of the EU are “responsible to stop illegal entries so that we can help the people who urgently need our support”.
She meant above all the refugees from Ukraine. The federal government puts their number at just over a million. Around another million people came to Germany from other countries this year, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The interior minister’s reasoning sounds plausible: Ukrainians must have priority over other migrants.
So far so good. But the same Ms. Faser, who speaks in this way, is also launching the so-called “chancen right of residence”, which was discussed in the Bundestag on Thursday.
This law is intended to offer rejected asylum seekers the opportunity to remain in Germany without a reason to flee. Anyone who has found a job within a year and has not committed a crime should receive a permanent residence permit.
Of course, this regulation acts like a magnet. Then the whole world will know that you only have to make it to Germany to be able to stay here, even if you have neither fled a war nor are you politically persecuted.
The Berlin Senate is behaving in a similarly contradictory manner: Social Senator Katja Kipping (left) is constantly sounding the alarm and complaining that there are no longer any accommodations for migrants and that hotels therefore have to be rented. At the same time, Berlin is committed to even more immigration as part of the “City Alliance for Safe Havens”.
The former interior senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) sued the former Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) because the Senate wanted to bypass the federal government by taking in migrants from the Greek camp “Moria”.
When the Federal Administrative Court dismissed the lawsuit this March, Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) protested: Berlin sees it as “its humanitarian obligation to help people in need and will continue to do so in the future with everything that is available to us.”
How does that fit together? There is no space and no money for more migrants, but everything is done to ensure that more of them come to Berlin.
And now back to the federal government: The traffic light coalition wants to fly in more “local staff” from Afghanistan who worked for the Bundeswehr. They too must be integrated here. And in a motion dated October 18, the SPD, Greens and FDP in the Bundestag called for the inmates of the US Guantánamo prison camp to be admitted when it is closed.
So more migration is being made possible everywhere, while cities and communities are reporting that they can no longer take anyone. Who should understand that?
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