Winter meeting: CSU tightens tone on migration policy

Almost eight weeks before the federal election, the CSU is once again tightening the tone on migration policy. According to their ideas, the right to remain for migrants should be linked to an adequate income. Anyone who commits multiple offenses should have to leave Germany. And the CSU wants to immediately implement a “de facto entry ban on illegal migrants” through rejections at the borders.

This emerges from a paper for the retreat of the CSU Bundestag members in the Seeon monastery in Upper Bavaria. Numerous points can already be found in the Union parties’ joint election program – but in some places the CSU goes a little further or takes a somewhat harsher tone.

“Anyone who wants to receive a residence permit in Germany must not have to support themselves through social benefits. Securing their livelihood must be guaranteed through their own work,” says the paper, which is available to the German Press Agency; The “Münchner Merkur” first reported on it.

“Anyone who commits a crime will be thrown out”

The CSU also reiterates the call for criminals and dangerous people to be expelled. “In the future, the principle must apply: Anyone who commits a crime will fly,” says the paper. “Anyone who commits a crime or intentionally commits multiple offenses must leave our country.” And: Anyone who cannot leave the country or be deported “must be able to be held indefinitely in detention pending deportation.”

According to the CSU, the first measure that the next Federal Minister of the Interior should create is the possibility of rejections at borders: “In order to maintain internal security and public order, we have the right to carry out rejections at national level, and we must also take advantage of this possibility,” says the paper. “We want to implement a de facto entry ban for illegal migrants.”

To this end, the CSU wants to put the police in a legal and technical position “to be able to read the mobile devices of people wanting to enter the country at the borders when they attempt to enter the country.” However, the CSU does not provide any further details about this.

Merz is the main guest at the CSU retreat

The CSU regional group’s exam begins next Monday (January 6th) and lasts until Wednesday. Guests expected on the last day include Union Chancellor candidate and CDU leader Friedrich Merz.