By Gunnar Schupelius
First it was officially said that Berlin could not take in any more refugees and migrants. Now they are even supposed to be flown in. In the Wegner Senate, one hand doesn’t seem to know what the other is doing, says Gunnar Schupelius.
The Berlin Senate Commissioner for Integration and Migration, Katarina Niewiedzial, has demanded that a further 14,000 people from Afghanistan be flown to Germany. Berlin is supposed to take some of them.
The human rights situation in Afghanistan has “deteriorated dramatically” since the Taliban took power two years ago, said Niewiedzial. That is why Berlin is “required to act consistently and quickly”. Berlin is “of course able to take in people from Afghanistan”.
In doing so, she contradicted the Senator for Social Affairs, Kansel Kiziltepe (SPD). Because she had declared in July that Berlin could no longer accept any more migrants, that there were no longer any permanent accommodations, only tents.
Ms. Niewiedzial obviously judges the situation differently. So in the Senate, one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing? And where is the Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU)? Shouldn’t he make such an important topic a top priority? Yes, he should. Because the uncontrolled immigration leads to an ever worse mood in the city.
In addition, there is not only a lack of living space, but also of kindergartens and schools. The much praised integration is practically no longer possible.
Anyone who calls for more Afghans to be flown in in this situation has to explain where and how they are to be taken in.
The admission of Afghans does not go smoothly, that too is part of the truth. Their number rose from 67,000 in 2013 to almost 400,000 this year.
It is completely unclear who is coming to Germany and for what reasons. Germany is a safe destination because Afghans are very rarely deported from here, even if they are obliged to leave the country and stay in the country illegally.
The federal government wanted to bring an additional 1,000 people from Afghanistan to Germany each month, but the program stalled for security reasons. In addition, around 3,000 people from Afghanistan come to us each year through family reunification.
And these numbers don’t paint a good picture either: Only 88,087 Afghans are employed and only about 23,000 have an apprenticeship or a university degree.
47.6 percent of the Afghans in Germany who have gone through the asylum procedure and received a right to stay receive the citizen’s benefit (formerly known as “Hartz IV”). For comparison: The proportion of people receiving citizen income in the total population is 5.3 percent.
The police also state that the “crime burden” from the “immigrant group” of Afghans is very high. This is mainly due to the fact that a particularly large number of men traveling alone and underage male adolescents are among them.
So it is obviously not that easy to integrate people from Afghanistan in our country, neither in the labor market nor in social life. Ms. Niewiedzial should know that, because she is officially responsible for integration. But she apparently ignores that because it might sound nicer if you promise asylum. She doesn’t have to bear the consequences of her claim.
However, those who want to govern sensibly are aware of the consequences of their demands and will only advocate more migrants if they can actually be accepted.
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