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Migration policy: SPD and FDP want to force deportations

2023-02-07T09:55:48.920Z


Politicians in the traffic light coalition are apparently working on a new package of laws on migration. The focus is on access to the labor market and family reunification, but also deportations.


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Pedestrian zone in Münster: Traffic light wants to facilitate immigration

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The traffic light coalition plans to simplify access to the labor market and family reunification for asylum seekers and those with a toleration status.

After the Bundestag passed a "migration package" in the fall, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is apparently planning even more: a migration package II with the working title "Family and Labor Market Integration Act".

No draft bill has yet become public, but migration politicians from the traffic light in the newspaper "Welt" commented on the project.

"With the so-called migration package II, we will focus on the integration of immigrants, family reunification and repatriation," said SPD parliamentary group leader Dirk Wiese.

»The facilitation of access to the labor market that we will create will also be important – because there will be a shortage of skilled workers in Germany in the foreseeable future.«

The parliamentary manager of the Greens, Filiz Polat, gave the “world” some details.

"Refugees should no longer be obliged to live in initial reception centers if they could stay with relatives," she said.

This would quickly “create free capacities, facilitate integration and avoid accommodation in gyms”.

"Anti-integration practice of work bans" should end

The coalition wants to abolish the "anti-integration practice of prohibiting refugees from working".

A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said that it was not yet possible to make any statements "on timetables and detailed concepts".

The package implements an agreement in the coalition agreement.

According to SPD politician Wiese, the coalition expects "a boost" in the case of repatriations thanks to the appointment of the new migration officer Joachim Stamp (FDP).

»With his field of work, the negotiation of migration and repatriation agreements, he supports a very important area in migration policy to date.«

The parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group, Stephan Thomae, called on the Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser (SPD), to force returns.

The refugee summit planned by her is "an important signal, because the municipalities are reaching their capacity limits," Thomae told the "Welt".

Basic right to asylum "untouchable"

"Of course, the basic right to asylum for the politically persecuted and war refugees remains inviolable," said the FDP politician.

»In order to relieve the municipalities, we have to ensure that people who have no prospects of staying leave our country quickly.«

Last year, the coalition created the legal prerequisites for accelerating the asylum and asylum court procedures, Thomae said.

"But in the long run, a viable solution in migration policy can only be a European solution," he said.

Interior Minister Faeser must work to ensure this.

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Source: spiegel

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