In a partly emotionally guided debate, the Bundestag has on Friday discussed on the planned suspension of the family reunification for refugees without asylum status. After that, the Bundestag voted for a suspension of family reunification.
Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) justified the law with the need for a limitation of the move to Germany: the template Pay attention to the stress limits of the state and society and so also work that Polarization in the country. The AfD announced its approval. Left and Greens criticized the template as inhuman.
First migration policy project of the new government
With the suspension of the family reunification, 12,000 people would come to Germany less per year than according to the previously valid regulation, said Dobrindt. The resilience of the German social system, educational system, the care system and the housing market has limits, he emphasized. “That is why the move to Germany has to know a border, and we dismiss them politically.”
The law is the first major migration policy project of the new federal government, which has been committed to limiting migration. “We set the migration policy heading for this legislative period: humanity and order,” said Dobrindt.
The aim is also to smash the “business model criminal gang”. This model is: “One only has to make it to Germany, then the whole family can do it,” said Dobrindt. “Criminal business models of criminals, tractors, gangs are based on this logic.
Anyone who blocks this path forces families on escape routes who are more fatal and dangerous than ever.
Clara BüngerLeft-wing MP
Dobrindt’s speech was partly excited brokerage accompanied by the opposition. Bundestag President Julia Klöckner gave the left-wing member Luigi Pantisano a call for orders because he had accused the interior minister in interjections of the “lie”.
The left-wing MP Clara Bünger criticized the law in her plenar case as a “cruel symbol policy on the back of the weakest”. Family reunification is “one of the last legal options today to find protection in Germany,” said Bünger. “Anyone who blocks this path forces families on escape routes who are more fatal and dangerous than ever.”
The Green MP Marcel Emmerich criticized the law as a “attack on the heart of every society, on the family”. The law is “relentless” And means suffering for children who cannot see their parents, for spouses who can only welcome themselves through screens, and for people who have long been part of this society here, but cannot live a normal life with their family.
SPD speakers admitted in the Bundestag that The approval of the Great Fall law that they wanted to agree with them from coalition discipline. The suspension of the family reunification is “a topic that the SPD would not have come up with,” said SPD MP Sebastian Fiedler. “You can say that without the coalition breaks.”
Integration Minister of State Natalie Pawlik (SPD) also said that the consent is difficult for many in their faction. “Integration succeeds better when families are together,” she said. The law is a compromise with the Union, which the SPD will support.
The goal is also limited immigration
The AfD criticized the template as inadequate, but still announced its consent. The law is “a small, an important step,” said AfD MP Christian Wirth. Of course, it is only a question of “symbolic migration policy in small format”, which does not concern the “basic problem” – “the complete overwhelming of our country through a sometimes self -destructive asylum policy”.
According to the coalition draft, family reunification should be suspended for two years in order to relieve the admission and integration systems of the Federal Republic. Family reunification should continue to be possible in hardship cases. In addition to the suspension of the family reunification, the draft law also provides for the goal of limiting immigration to the residence law in addition to the control.
Family members are affected by the suspension of so -called subsidiary beneficiaries. These are people who have not been recognized in Germany in the sense of the Geneva Convention on the Refugees or as a person entitled to asylum, but may remain for other reasons. This is the case if you In the home country torture, death penalty or inhumane treatment threatens.
Civil war refugees are often affected. Subsidiary beneficiaries receive a residence permit for initially three years, which can be extended. (AFP)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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