The district council considers the municipalities’ capacity to accept and integrate refugees to be exhausted. In a position paper, it is therefore calling for a strict limitation of irregular migration.
In a position paper, the German Association of Districts called for a change in migration policy. The municipalities’ capacity to accept and integrate refugees has been exhausted, it said. Therefore, a strict limitation of irregular migration is “urgently required”.
The district council welcomed the federal government’s security package presented at the end of August – but there is no overall concept for a fundamentally different migration policy. According to the district council, this concept would abolish the subsidiary protection status for refugees, increase the number of returns – including to Syria and Afghanistan – and continue border controls.
According to the position paper, the reform of the Common European Asylum System must also be implemented and further developed quickly. Subsidiary protection applies when a refugee cannot be granted asylum but is at risk of serious harm in the country of origin – such as torture or the death penalty.
Source: Stern
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