Refugee Council criticizes planned departure centers
The Brandenburg Refugee Council has sharply criticized the planned departure centers for refugees. Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) is "obviously eager to hatch ways and means of isolating, marginalizing, harassing and psychologically pressuring people without having to use brute force such as locked doors and walls", said Carla Regling, a member of the Refugee Council, on Saturday. "The glass wall of the residence obligation and the threat of withdrawal of benefits and wanted notices achieve this effect."
Stübgen wants to speed up the repatriation of migrants who are obliged to leave the country and open three facilities. He plans to place refugees with obstacles to deportation, such as missing replacement passport documents, in shared accommodation. According to his own statements, he also wants to prevent migrants registered for repatriation from only turning up occasionally when they need to deal with the authorities. Voluntary departures are to be encouraged and returns forced against the will of those affected.
To speak of "shared accommodation" in this context is "ignorant of the deliberate plan to establish an inhumane isolation system", explained Regling. The plans are an "expression of right-wing and inhumane "Hau-ab" fantasies", with which the minister believes he can score points on the right-wing fringe.
The planned departure centers for refugees, as suggested by Interior Minister Stübgen, have been criticized for their potential to isolate and marginalize refugees by the Brandenburg Refugee Council. This migration issue has sparked concerns about the treatment of refugees who face obstacles to deportation, with the council viewing the proposed "shared accommodation" as an attempt to establish an inhumane isolation system.
Source: www.dpa.com
