New migration policy: Bundestag heralds course change: family reunification exposed

The Bundestag has decided to stop family reunification into refugees with limited protection status for two years. It is the first of several planned reform projects of the federal government in migration policy.

In the first consultation of the parliament, the abolition of the so -called turbo naturalization – left and the green of the black and red coalition accused them of falling into well -integrated immigrants. The coalition wants to abolish the naturalization introduced a year ago for people with special integration services after three years.

However, the other elements of the reform of nationality law decided by the traffic light government are preserved. These include, for example, the general possibility of double citizenship and a shortening of the waiting time for normal naturalizations from eight to five years.

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) said that a single reform was not enough. Rather, it is about a “multitude of measures that need to be taken so that we can also implement the migration turn”. That is “no change of course, it is a frontal attack on our people,” said Ferat Kocak (left).

The suspension of family reunification affects people from Syria. According to Bundestag Vice President Bodo Ramelow, 444 MPs voted for this. 135 parliamentarians voted no.

Dobrindt said that it is about controlling and limiting the move to Germany alike. “This is the order for this legislative period,” he added. His speech was accompanied by numerous interjections from the ranks of the opposition. Bundestag President Julia Klöckner gave MP Luigi Pantisano (left) a call for orders because he had called “lie”.

In contrast to other recognized refugees, the follow -up for those who are entitled to protection was already limited to 1,000 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.

AfD supports the change

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 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.

SPD struggles with the project

The domestic spokesman for the Union faction, Alexander Throm (CDU), countered the criticism of the Greens and Left with the sentence that it is “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”.

Per asylum wants to check legal steps

Pro asylum pointed out that some of those affected had 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”.

She had already done that after Dobrindt had on May 7, asylum seekers should also be rejected at German borders – with exceptions for vulnerable groups, including pregnant women and the sick. The Federal Government also records this practice even after an endurance decision by the Berlin Administrative Court. The court classified the rejection of three Somalier as illegal during a check at the train station of the border town of Frankfurt (Oder).

Interior expert: Dobrindt lack basic legal knowledge

The Parliamentary Managing Director of the Green Group, Irene Mihalic, then asked the Interior Ministry whether Dobrindt had changed his justification for rejections from those seeking protection after this decision. The ministry informed her this week in a written answer that “no reason for rejection of those seeking protection/asylum seekers was adapted or sent to the federal police”. Mihalic commented on this with the words: “All of this does not testify to neither the willingness to take responsibility nor of the basic legal knowledge of the Minister of the Constitution and trained sociologist Alexander Dobrindt.”

Returns to the limits have been around for a long time. Inpatient border controls are a prerequisite for this. They have been around since 2015 on the border with Austria. In other border sections, they have been gradually ordered by the then Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD). Up to Dobrindt’s instructions on May 7, only those who were proven with an entry lock – for example after a deportation – or did not apply asylum.

Last Wednesday, Dobrindt said that around 5,000 people had been rejected at the borders since May 7, including 264 asylum seekers. The fact that their proportion is so low may also be due to the fact that word has got around, that an asylum application no longer automatically enables entry.