Saxony is warning the federal government to get to work on refugee policy: in addition to securing the EU’s external border, Interior Minister Schuster is calling for the repatriation of asylum seekers without a right to stay. The search for the triggers for the growing influx via the Balkans continues.
In view of the increasing number of refugees, Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster warned against overburdening the federal states on the border and called on the federal government to take countermeasures. “The federal government must now talk to the Schengen partners about the security of the external border as quickly as possible,” said the CDU politician to the “Rheinische Post”. In addition, “now is not the time for further voluntary admission programs that the federal government decides unilaterally without involving the states that have to implement them”.
For federal states like Saxony, the influx “will soon be almost impossible to cope with if the majority of the federal states have opted out of further distribution at the same time,” criticized Schuster. “There has to be a solution.” The repatriation offensive for people who have no right to stay, which has already been announced several times by the federal government, is needed. According to Schuster, the pressure to migrate is increasing. In other federal states, the first gyms would be closed for accommodation these days. “The accommodation situation is also getting worse in Saxony.” This can be seen in the state reception facilities and “this is also being signaled very clearly at the municipal level”.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser had expressed concern about the increasing number of migrants trying to reach Europe via the Balkan route and the Mediterranean. The fact that more people, especially Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, are coming to Europe via these routes “worries me,” the SPD politician told “Bild am Sonntag”. The border controls with Austria have been extended, and the federal police are increasingly checking the Czech border as part of the veil manhunt.
Faeser is currently investigating how the number of refugees at the German borders, which has been increasing for months, comes about. Apparently many of the migrants entered the Serbian capital Belgrade, also via the airport there, and then made their way to Germany, the SPD minister told the TV station Welt last week and announced talks with Serbia about “why migration suddenly increased”.
At an election campaign event for the FDP Lower Saxony, FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki expressed the suspicion that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was responsible. The trigger was “Erdogan, the sewer rat,” said Kubicki in Hildesheim. Kubicki warned the federal government not to “simply open your arms again” in the event of the next wave of refugees.
