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Juso boss Jessica Rosenthal: "If we don't have a solution before Christmas, people will die"
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A dispute over refugee policy threatens at the SPD party congress.
In an initiative application, the Migration Working Group and the Young Socialists (Jusos) demand the admission of refugees from Belarus.
In the border area between Poland and Belarus people are in mortal danger.
"You are trapped in the forest when it is below freezing," says the application.
These include families, women and children.
You should be brought to safety immediately.
The applicants demand from the new federal government that Germany should take a pioneering role in a "coalition of humanity" and accept people after consultation with Poland.
“The situation is fatal.
If we don't have a solution before Christmas, people die, ”says Juso boss Jessica Rosenthal.
At the beginning of December she was in Poland with her SPD colleagues in the Bundestag Reem Alabali-Radovan, Lars Castellucci and Hakan Demir.
The group met aid organizations and members of the opposition in Warsaw and was informed about the situation at the border.
Every day hundreds of migrants and refugees try to enter Poland illegally in the Polish-Belarusian border area.
The European Union accuses Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of trying to smuggle people into the EU in order to avenge himself for sanctions.
The Polish government does not allow aid organizations to enter the border region.
Migrants who make it into the country are pushed back and left in the forest.
The applicants demand a change of perspective from the social democratic members of the Bundestag, the European Parliament and the federal government. Aid organizations should have immediate access to the border region. In addition, the sanctions against the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko would have to be expanded. He must "be called to account for state-organized human trafficking before an international jurisdiction."
The reason for the motion states that the situation at the EU's external borders is worsening every hour while the EU is discussing sanctions and about "how many additional millions of euros should flow into these countries to detain people on the run".
The fact that the former Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) praised the Polish stance and spoke of a destabilization of the EU through a “hybrid threat” was “a blow to the sensitive pit of the EU's stomach”.
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