Lindner calls for viable repatriation agreements
Created: 01/06/2022, 1:29 PM
Christian Lindner, Federal Chairman of the FDP, speaks at the Epiphany.
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FDP leader Christian Lindner has declared the swift conclusion of return agreements with important countries of origin of asylum seekers a prerequisite for a new immigration policy.
“I know that many have the expectation that a lot is happening, especially with regard to humanitarian immigration to Germany,” he said on Thursday at the FDP’s Epiphany in Stuttgart.
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"But it must be clear that this willingness to take on more humanitarian responsibility must remain inextricably linked with the fact that Germany concludes workable return and migration agreements with other countries that work in practice."
The prerequisite for a new openness is control over access to Germany.
"A new, also liberal immigration policy must on the one hand create the conditions for people to come to us unbureaucratically," emphasized Lindner.
"On the other hand, however, it has to put more emphasis on ensuring that those who have no place with us can be brought back to their old home."
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At the moment the situation is such that, on the one hand, the wrong people are sometimes deported, namely precisely those who have already set out to be integrated.
"On the other hand, however, we will often not be able to send home those who are criminals or threats, who do not respect our free-democratic basic order and the rules of cooperation."
Lindner emphasized: "So if you want to make rapid progress now with qualified immigration and humanitarian immigration, you have to speed up the question of how we can come to these workable migration agreements." Such agreements will be concluded very quickly in the coming weeks.
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