Erlangen (dpa / lby) – The number of asylum seekers in Bavaria has increased significantly again. “The Bavarian anchor centers are more than 90 percent occupied,” said Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) on Friday in Erlangen. In addition to the more than 148,000 Ukrainian refugees who have been registered in Bavaria since March 2022, the regular number of asylum seekers has also increased again.
According to Herrmann, the number of first-time asylum applications in Germany from January to June 2022 was 84,583, 43.5 percent more than in the previous year. According to the Ministry of the Interior, there were 10,762 in Bavaria in the same period, which means an increase of 37.0 percent. The main countries of origin in the federal government, like in Bavaria, are Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anchor centers are facilities in which asylum seekers and refugees are accommodated and remain until the asylum application is decided. Anchor stands for “arrival, decision and communal distribution or return”. Rejected applicants are deported directly from the center.
In this context, Herrmann accused the federal government of not living up to its responsibility in asylum policy: “With his recent admission commitments within the framework of the European solidarity mechanism, he is acting unilaterally and exclusively at the expense of the federal states.” It is completely out of the question that the traffic light coalition does not want to pay more, but even less, for the accommodation of refugees. “But she is planning further humanitarian admissions of refugees from other continents without the participation of the countries in a situation where the number of asylum seekers is already increasing.”
Herrmann said that the federal states and local authorities were more than busy with caring for war refugees. Therefore, the federal government must at least assume the additional costs and work together with the federal states.
