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The integration concept for the district is ready - now it should be filled with life

2021-08-03T06:09:31.404Z


The district has given itself an integration concept. But this should also be filled with life and not gather dust in the drawer, was demanded in the district council.


The district has given itself an integration concept.

But this should also be filled with life and not gather dust in the drawer, was demanded in the district council.

District

- This corresponds to the request of

District

Administrator Andrea Jochner-Weiß, who once again paid tribute to the years of work that led to the creation of the integration concept.

"If we want to implement the concept, we need a full-time position at the district office," she clarified when the concept was presented in the district council.

District Councilor Alfred Honisch (Grüne / Weilheim) praised the work that went into the concept, but stepped on the brakes in the debate about the full-time position.

Six years ago, when hundreds of thousands of refugees came to Germany, mainly from Syria, numerous positions were created in the district office to deal with the asylum crisis, he recalled.

It should be possible today for an employee from this group of people to be seconded to initiate the implementation of the integration concept, he suggested.

This is exactly how it was planned, assured Managing Director Georg Leis.

The district administrator's request should be understood as "that it should be made clear that human resources must be made available for such a task".

"This is a giant step"

Markus Bader (SPD / Rottenbuch) was pleased that the integration concept now provides a database as the basis for the actual work.

“It's a giant step,” he says.

Because now be clear.

“What a Herculean task in terms of integration is waiting for us,” said Bader.

All you have to do is take a closer look at the numbers.

The proportion of foreigners in the Weilheim-Schongau district is 9.6 percent.

“It's easy to say that isn't that much,” says Bader.

But the foreigners are not evenly distributed.

The city of Schongau already has a share of 20 percent foreigners.

A school in Schongau had a share of 50 percent foreigners, a single class there a share of 94 percent - it would take considerable effort to implement an integration concept.

AfD rejects the integration concept

Rüdiger Imgart (AfD / Weilheim) announced as expected that he would reject the integration concept.

He sees the task of integrating with the foreigners.

You would have to want this, you don't need any concepts from the district.

Peter Erhard (CSU / Böbing) contradicted this: "Integration concerns us all, can only be implemented together."

Susann Enders (Free Voters / Weilheim), who was born in Saxony-Anhalt, tried to bring a bit of humor into the debate: "I also immigrated, I am glad that I was allowed to cross the white sausage equator." And now she is well integrated in Upper Bavaria.

Josef Taffertshofer (BfL / Wildsteig), on the other hand, took the topic much more seriously. He recalled that “the conditions under which the immigrants have to live even after years are sometimes unbearable”. Politicians are asked to create the framework conditions for immigrants to work and live. That is the prerequisite for integration.

Source: merkur

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