Family reunification: Bundestag exposes it to certain refugees

The Bundestag has decided to completely stop family reunification to foreigners with limited protection status for two years. This mainly affects people from Syria. According to Bundestag Vice President Bodo Ramelow, 444 MPs voted for the bill of black and red coalition. 135 parliamentarians were right with no.

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) said that it was about controlling and limiting the move to Germany equally. “This is the order for this legislative period,” he added. His speech was accompanied by numerous calls.

In contrast to other recognized refugees, the follow -up for those who are entitled to protection was already limited to 1000 relatives per month. In the future, subsidiary beneficiaries will only be allowed to catch up with the parents, minor children and in the event of unaccompanied minors in hardship cases.

The AfD described the coalition’s legislative proposal as a “tiny step in the right direction”, which it therefore supports. Your parliamentary managing director, Bernd Baumann, said Dobrindt took over ideas from the AfD.

The escape -political spokeswoman for the left faction, Clara Bünger, said the coalition is doing a “misanthropic deterrent policy”. The suspension of the family reunification was “relentless”, criticized the domestic spokesman for the Green Group, Marcel Emmerich. Without their families, refugees often lack emotional support, which is necessary for successful integration.

The domestic political spokesman for the Union faction, Alexander Throm (CDU), countered the criticism of the Greens and Left with the sentence that it was finally “about access to people who originally came to Germany”.

The Federal Government’s integration officer, Natalie Pawlik (SPD), said that one had to finally get away from the “negative debate” to migration. After all, they also offer opportunities for German society. The SPD parliamentary group’s domestic spokesman, Sebastian Fiedler, admitted that the suspension of the family reunification was “a topic that the SPD would not have come up with”.

Pro asylum wants to check legal steps per asylum pointed out that some of the affected people have been waiting for their relatives to enter their relatives for years. The refugee right organization announced that it would check legal steps “and if necessary, those affected support them to complain against violations of the law”.