An FDP politician from North Rhine-Westphalia is to solve a problem that the federal government has not been able to get a grip on for years: actually carrying out deportations. The new special representative for migration therefore keeps the ball low right from the start.
The Federal Government’s new special representative for migration, Joachim Stamp, does not expect quick results in his work. It is part of honesty “that we have to drill very thick boards and the successes will certainly not be seen overnight,” said the FDP politician on Saturday evening on ARD. It is important to “reduce irregular migration and enable more regulated migration”.
With the announced migration agreements, the decisive question is whether countries of origin take back their citizens. Deportations often fail because “they are simply not taken back.” In agreements, countries could, on the one hand, “get new chances for visas and job opportunities with us” and, in return, “take back” people who didn’t play by the rules of the game in Germany or who had no right of residence.
But even such agreements have limits, Stamp admitted. A migration agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan or with the Assad regime in Syria is not possible. In his work, he strives for a consensus with the opposition, since the federal states are governed in different constellations. He wanted to “pull together, from one direction with one goal”. The former North Rhine-Westphalian integration minister is to take up the newly created office of special representative at the beginning of the year.
The personnel details go back to the coalition agreement, which states on the subject of refugee policy: “We want to conclude new practical and partnership-based agreements with important countries of origin, taking into account human rights standards.” This involves, for example, economic cooperation, qualification measures for the German labor market and “cooperation on the return of rejected asylum seekers”. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced in an interview in “Welt am Sonntag” that Stamp would take over the post.
