- Haseloff and Zieschang advocate for an immediate implementation of a plan.
Saxony-Anhalt insists that the federal government curtails the entry of Syrians and Afghans into Germany and reconsiders expulsion prohibitions. Minister President Reiner Haseloff and Interior Minister Tamara Zieschang (both CDU) advocate for an immediate action plan. As per this proposal, the federal government should discover effective means to execute deportations and orderly voluntary departures, specifically of lawbreakers and potential dangers, to Afghanistan and Syria. To safeguard its native population, German authorities should exhaust every legal and functional option available.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) must examine all expulsion prohibitions for Afghan and Syrian nationals obligated to depart, Haseloff and Zieschang additionally insist.
In Saxony-Anhalt itself, the Bamf has identified around 2,450 Afghan and around 450 Syrian nationals who were granted an expulsion ban based on the destination country despite needing to depart. The federal government needs to reassess the circumstances in Afghanistan and Syria.
Reevaluate the circumstance in Afghanistan and Syria
"As per current jurisprudence, it is no longer considered that returning Afghan nationals will experience inhumane or degrading treatment without exception or generally as a rule," it was mentioned in the statement. "Expulsions of healthy male Afghan nationals are therefore fundamentally feasible." This also applies to the reexamination of the situation in Syria. Reference was made to judgments by various German courts.
Moreover, the two state politicians demand that the federal government halts family reunification and also discontinues the federal resettlement program for Afghans from 2022.
The Federal government should reevaluate the circumstances in Afghanistan and Syria, as per the demands of Saxony-Anhalt, given that current jurisprudence deems it possible to deport healthy male Afghan nationals without fear of inhumane treatment. The federal government, in alignment with Saxony-Anhalt's proposal, needs to reassess its approach towards Syrians as well.
