Status: 15.01.2024, 04:55 a.m.
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
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Robert Habeck (Greens), Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Christian Lindner (FDP). © Dpa
The dispute over the asylum rules within the traffic light has now finally been resolved. From April, more deportations and faster naturalizations should be possible.
Berlin – Within the traffic light coalition, the positions on tougher asylum rules, such as more deportations, as well as on the plan for faster naturalizations of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) diverge. After months of debate, a compromise has now been reached, as the Bild newspaper reported.
Deportations and naturalizations: Traffic light reaches compromise
Accordingly, the "Law to Improve Repatriation" and the reform of citizenship law are to be passed in the Bundestag on Thursday (18 January). From April, the new rules will finally come into force, as the newspaper reports. This will allow for more deportations and faster naturalizations. The dispute recently revolved around the tougher asylum rules. While the Greens demanded relaxations such as lawyers for all people in deportation detention, the FDP opposed it because of the fear of too great a delay.
According to the new draft, detention pending deportation is now to be significantly extended from ten to 28 days of detention. After all, people who are in deportation custody will only receive a lawyer if no one has been involved in the asylum procedure until then. This is probably only true for a small group of asylum seekers. "We have announced faster deportations, we are implementing them. Due to the legal advice of a few, there will be no significant delays," said SPD parliamentary group vice-chairman Dirk Wiese to Bild.
Traffic light compromise in asylum dispute: Draft to be passed in the Bundestag
In the new design of the traffic light, there are also exceptions, for example for families. "Minors and families with minors will not be detained for deportation," the bill reads, according to the newspaper. However, this does not apply to juvenile offenders, as Wiese explains: "This does not mean that juvenile intensive offenders are spared. They can still be taken into custody pending deportation."
In addition, a person can also be deported for a number of minor offences in the future, provided that these were committed within 12 months. The new draft also allows for tougher action against passport forgers, who will be subject to an "entry and residence ban" if the fraud is discovered. In addition, the range of penalties for smugglers will be increased: for them there will be a "prison sentence of not less than one year".
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Special Relationship between Israel and Germany: Recognition on Naturalization
A special chapter will also be opened for anti-Semitic offenders. This is what it says when a migrant has been sentenced to a fine or imprisonment above the de minimis threshold of 90 daily rates, in which an "anti-Semitic, racist, (...) gender-specific (...) or other inhumane motive", this will be assessed as a reason for deportation.
In addition, naturalization candidates will have to recognize the special relationship between Germany and Israel in the future. This is to prevent people with anti-Semitic ideas from obtaining a German passport. This seems to be very important, especially in the background of the rising anti-Semitic crimes due to the war in Israel. "In the future, applicants for naturalization must acknowledge Germany's special historical responsibility for the National Socialist rule of injustice and its consequences, especially for the protection of Jewish life, as well as for the peaceful coexistence of peoples and the prohibition of waging a war of aggression," Bild quotes from the draft. (bb)