Migration policy: Merkel criticizes asylum rejections – freely counters

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel has distanced himself from the practice of the Union Ministry of Interior to have asylum seekers rejected with border controls. “If someone here says” Asylum “at the German border, then they have to get a procedure first. For my part, right on the border, but a procedure,” said the Christian Democrat at a meeting with former refugees. “That’s how I understood European law.”

The meeting was organized and filmed by the WDR. From the show “10 years after: refugees in conversation with Angela Merkel” the ARD “Morgenmagazin” already showed excerpts.

Similar to Merkel, the Berlin Administrative Court, which in a specific case of three from Poland Somalier, declared their rejection of their rejection at the first train station behind the border. However, the Interior Ministry of Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) sees this as a individual decision and sticks to practice.

Freely affirmed government view

Chancellor’s head Thorsten Frei from the CDU confirmed the government’s view in the “Morgenmagazin”. “First of all, there is something else in Article 16a of the Basic Law, also in Paragraph 18 of the Asylum Act. And according to the matter, you also have to say: If someone has already received asylum somewhere in Europe, if someone has come to us through safe countries in Europe, then of course we have no one who is on the run, but then we have to do it with people who come from safe countries.”

Merkel also warned against being driven by the AfD in migration policy. “I can not always talk about the AfD and take on its agenda. But I also have to take up the agenda of all those who say: Yes, we have to reduce the number of illegal migration, but we still have to represent our values,” she said.

Merkel’s much defended a lot and also criticized in the Union’s sentence from the 2015 refugee crisis “We can do it”, but ordered it into the time. “If a head of government says” We can do something “, that’s a right attitude. Because that can be demanded from a government that she does not put her head in the sand, but deals with the challenges,” he said in the “Morgenmagazin”. “But in fact, of course, the times have changed, of course. In 2019, we already put together a large migration package in the reign of Angela Merkel, where there was also a return of improvement law.