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Boris Palmer is one of the most prominent signers of the memorandum
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A newly formed group within the Greens is in favor of a change of course in refugee policy in view of the completely overburdened municipalities.
It calls itself »Vert Realos«, one of the most prominent members is the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer.
Several dozen politicians have signed your seven-page “Memorandum for a different migration policy in Germany”.
They include the Bavarian district administrator Jens Marco Scherf, the former parliamentary state secretary in the development aid ministry Uschi Eid, and Rebecca Harms, former group leader in the EU Parliament.
There is a lack of a "concept for successful integration or the consistent return of refugees to their homeland as soon as this can be justified or they want it themselves," it says there.
An immigration law for economic migrants is needed, but also "mandatory residence zones" for refugees both at the borders and outside the European Union.
Authors see danger for social peace
Asylum seekers without papers would have to be rejected or "remain in a state reception facility until their identity has been clarified".
A right of residence presupposes that refugees “fit into the social order” and accept basic values such as religious tolerance or Israel’s right to exist.
The authors of the memorandum emphasize that acceptance of immigration is falling in Germany.
This situation endangers cohesion and social peace in the long run.
The “right fringe of society and the parties” is being strengthened by the “mistaken migration policy” and the refusal to openly debate undesirable developments.
The proposals are likely to meet with fierce resistance within the party, as in many respects they represent a departure from the Greens' positions that have been maintained for decades. Apparently the initiators are also counting on this.
They see the paper as a "contribution to the discussion" in the party, so that "migration policy in Germany can be adapted to actual requirements".
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