Migration: Union presents proposals for a change in migration policy

The Union faction is calling for permanent border controls and the rejection of all attempts at illegal entry without exception, as well as further points for a change in migration policy. This emerges from the parliamentary group’s draft proposal for the Bundestag, which is available to the German Press Agency. One of the five points that should be implemented immediately is that people who are clearly obliged to leave the country “will be taken into immediate custody”. The federal states should also receive more support in enforcing the obligation to leave the country. In addition, the right of residence for criminals and so-called dangerous people should be tightened. “Bild” also reported on the draft application.

The knife attack in Aschaffenburg brought the migration debate in Germany into focus around a month before the federal election. In Aschaffenburg on Wednesday, a two-year-old boy and a man were killed and two other people were seriously injured. A 28-year-old Afghan man who was required to leave the country was arrested as the perpetrator.

Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) wants to introduce the five-point plan to the Bundestag in the upcoming plenary week. The draft application speaks of a “new dimension of violence” that is increasingly shaking Germany. Reference is also made to the attacks in Mannheim, Solingen and Magdeburg.

Policy change in internal security required

“The current asylum and immigration policy endangers the security of citizens and the trust of the entire society in the state. It is rejected by the vast majority of people in Germany,” it says in the two-page application. The politics of the past few years have failed to regain and maintain control over migration.

In a second draft application, the Union lists further demands for a “policy change in internal security”. Merz had announced that he would make the applications available to the SPD, Greens and FDP in advance. The AfD doesn’t get it. “The former traffic light factions receive the texts from us with the express request to talk about it over the weekend and to try to make a joint decision here next week,” said the Union faction leader of the “Heilbronner Stimme” – Media group in Künzelsau in Baden-Württemberg said.