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CDU Prime Minister calls for a change in migration and naturalization
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The murder in Aschaffenburg once again puts migration policy at the center of the election campaign. Thuringia’s CDU head of government Voigt is calling for a radical change of course.
The Thuringian Prime Minister Mario Voigt (CDU) has called for a “turnaround in migration policy”. People without the right to stay would have to leave Germany again, he said star.
In addition to new detention centers for deportation, he announced a separate deportation center for Thuringia. “During this legislative period, in addition to a new central initial reception facility, we will also set up a repatriation center,” he explained.
Two dead in Aschaffenburg
The Prime Minister made his statements shortly before the latest act of violence in Aschaffenburg. A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed in a knife attack in a park in the Franconian city. A 28-year-old Afghan who is said to have recently lived in an asylum center is considered suspicious.
Voigt also defended his party’s demand to withdraw double passports from criminals against growing criticism. “We have to show the red card to people who abuse their dual citizenship,” he said.
According to Voigt, a double passport is a “proof of trust from the state in the new citizens and a privilege that requires integration” in return. “But anyone who doesn’t integrate, abuses trust, commits serious crimes and turns away from Germany must be able to lose the double pass again.”
One-two: Voigt supports Friedrich Merz’s line
The Prime Minister described the planned solution as “fair and legally clean”. Everything else “cannot be communicated to the population”.
Voigt, who is a member of the CDU presidium, is thus aggressively supporting the new line of party leader Friedrich Merz. “His proposal is compatible with the Basic Law; I do not share the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s concerns,” he said.
Voigt criticized the legal simplifications made by the traffic light federal government. Last year, around 80 percent of naturalization applications were aimed at obtaining dual national status. This is a wrong development.
“If migrants really want to make Germany their home, where they live, work and adhere to the applicable rules, then they should fully commit to Germany,” said Voigt. “The one-two must become the exception it once was.”
Source: Stern

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