Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is proud of her asylum policy. In the last six months, the police arrested more than 700 smugglers.
17,600 unauthorized entries were prevented, and the number of asylum applications fell by a fifth compared to the previous year. But the opposition continues to demand a change of course. After 16 years of Union government, it is the traffic light coalition that will go down in history for its consistent migration policy, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (AA) The party alliance had already agreed in the coalition agreement to introduce a new immigration law in order to attract as many skilled workers as possible to Germany, it says. The AA says the coalition will be remembered as the "party of immigration control" in Germany. The AAV wants to see “how the massively increased protection of the external borders and human rights-compliant asylum procedures can now be implemented as quickly as possible,” said the minister.