The authorities are expecting a significant increase in the number of asylum seekers in the coming year. Meanwhile, the FDP wants to realign migration policy. Migrants who do not gain a foothold in the labor market should have to leave the country. Immigration should be expanded.
In order to counteract the worsening labor shortage, the FDP wants to significantly increase immigration to the Federal Republic. “For years, Germany has had a serious demographic crisis that is threatening our prosperity, and that applies to all generations,” said Christian Dürr, leader of the FDP parliamentary group, in the “Augsburger Allgemeine”.
He therefore advocates completely realigning migration policy. Nine out of ten migrants come to Germany as refugees, only one as a migrant worker. “What has made people mad in the past is that we invited people into the welfare state, but not into the labor market – we have to turn that around,” Dürr continued. Immigrants in this country who cannot live from the work of their hands or who become criminals must leave the country immediately.
The leader of the Liberal parliamentary group wants to make immigration a focus of traffic light policy in the coming year. He is confident that a modern migration policy will meet with broad public approval. In November, the traffic light coalition presented a first draft law to amend the naturalization law.
Aminata Touré, Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister for Social Affairs and Integration, hopes that the law will, if necessary, pass through the Bundesrat and not be blocked by the Union’s states. “The question of nationality is strongly linked to whether we as a country are attractive for skilled workers,” said the Green politician to the “taz”. Otherwise people would go to an English speaking country where they would have much easier conditions. It will no longer work with the arrogance with which the Federal Republic has been on the road in recent decades.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) is currently noting a significantly higher migration pressure than in previous years. “It can be observed that not only in Germany, but also at the EU’s external borders, the migration pressure is currently increasing significantly,” said a Bamf spokesman for the editorial network Germany (RND). “Although the numbers increase every autumn, the current access activity is more dynamic than in previous years.”
According to the spokesman, one of the causes is the lifting of pandemic-related travel restrictions. The economic and domestic political situation in classic host and transit countries such as Turkey, Tunisia and Libya has also worsened.
