Her turn German government in immigration policy to the strictest, something that has been prepared for a long time, the chancellor announced in an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel Olaf Solz.
“We must proceed with mass deportations for those who have no right to remain in Germany (…) More and faster deportations” said the chancellor, emphasizing that anyone who cannot establish a right to asylum and has no prospects of staying in Germany should return to the respective country of origin.
According to the Social Democrat chancellor, if immigration to Germany continues without limits, then the welfare state is at risk. “Whoever is in favor of unlimited immigration must be equally honest and accept that we will not be able to maintain the welfare state in its current form,” he says. Olaf Solz reports that the management of immigration requires de facto “cruelty to a degree“, but something that does not imply a loss of humanity.
“Benefits in kind” instead of allowances
In the same interview defends stricter controls at the EU’s external borders but also of the new European solidarity mechanism, which provides for the first registration of newly arrived at the external borders and then their distribution to all EU countries on the basis of solidarity.
It also provides support to Interior Secretary Nancy Fesser, who recently announced the introduction of intensified border controls at Germany’s borders with neighboring countries to tackle irregular immigration. It also supports in the future the idea of benefits in kind instead of money and allowances for asylum seekers and considers Georgia and Moldova as safe countries of origin.
Judges uphold, dissent like-minded
Germany’s Association of Judges and Prosecutors rushed to offer support for Scholz’s plans to speed up asylum procedures and deportations, however, requesting the reinforcement of the administrative courts with additional staff. According to the Federal Immigration and Asylum Service, by mid-2023 over 120,000 asylum cases were pending before the competent German authorities.
Soltz’s announcements are strongly criticized by the parties in the coalition governmentsuch as from the Social Democratic Youth, which reports that the chancellor is slipping into the use of “the vocabulary of the far-right mob”, when what is being asked is a social democratic immigration policy based on humanitarian values.
Serious tensions over the Soltz plans are also being raised by members of the Greens, with former party official Jürgen Tritin to point out that 30 years after 1993 “we should have learned that isolation, deterrence and deportations are not an immigration policy but a program to financially support racism and the far right».
It should be noted that Tthat year a Solidarity Pact was signed between the then German government and the federal states for the financial support of German Reunification and the integration of East Germans.
Source: News Beast
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