The CDU chief of Thuringia will go to Syria
Minister of the Interior Faeser states that efforts are being made to enable deportations to Syria and Afghanistan. The CDU top candidate for Thuringia Voigt also wants this for people who have never been lawfully resident in Germany.
Leading politicians from the SPD and CDU confirmed their pleas for deportations of criminals to Syria and Afghanistan about a month before the elections in Thuringia and Saxony. The Thuringian CDU chairman and opposition leader Mario Voigt called for general deportations to Syria. "We can't keep taking in everyone from Syria like before," Voigt told the "Stern." "And we have to start deporting people back to Syria again." Voigt stated that this principle should not only apply to criminals. "People who have no perspectives for staying in Germany should be returned," he said. "The general deportation ban must fall."
Voigt referred to the North Rhine-Westphalia Administrative Court, which had recently rejected the asylum application of a criminal Syrian. "The court ruled correctly that there is no serious and general danger to life and limb in Syria," Voigt said. "Therefore, it is absolutely wrong to continue to grant subsidized protection to refugees from Syria in general." Instead, there should be an individual assessment, as for any other asylum seeker.
Voigt urged the federal government to "engage in dialogue with the Assad regime together with other EU states." The traffic light coalition should finally "face reality," Voigt said. "We need to act."
Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser of the SPD told "Bild am Sonntag": "We are in confidential talks with various countries to make deportations to Afghanistan and Syria possible again." She emphasized: "We want to consistently deport Islamist terrorists."
Even her party friend, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, has chosen a harder tone on the topic of migration for weeks. Landtag elections are taking place in three eastern German federal states in September, where the migration-critical parties AfD and BSW are performing strongly in surveys. Thuringia and Saxony vote on September 1, and Brandenburg votes on September 22.
- In response to Voigt's calls, other leading politicians from the SPD and CDU also expressed their support for deportations of criminals to Syria and Afghanistan before the elections in Thuringia and Saxony.
- Voigt, the CDU chairman and opposition leader in Thuringia, proposed general deportations to Syria, arguing that Germany should not continue to accept Syrians as it did in the past and that those with no prospects in Germany should be returned.
- Supporting Voigt's stance, the North Rhine-Westphalia Administrative Court recently rejected the asylum application of a criminal Syrian, ruling that there was no serious and general danger to life and limb in Syria.
- Voigt suggested that the federal government should engage in dialogue with the Assad regime in Syria, together with other EU states, and urged the traffic light coalition to "face reality" and take action.
- Faeser, the SPD's Minister of the Interior, revealed that confidential talks were being held with various countries to make deportations to Afghanistan and Syria possible again, focusing on Islamist terrorists.
- As the migration-critical parties AfD and BSW perform well in surveys in the upcoming landtag elections in three eastern German federal states, Scholz, the Federal Chancellor, has adopted a harder tone on migration issues to attract voters in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg.
