Migration coverage: Merkel criticizes asylum rejections – freely counters | EUROtoday

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel has distanced himself from the apply of the Union Ministry of Interior to have asylum seekers rejected with border controls. “If someone here says” Asylum “at the German border, then they have to get a procedure first. For my part, right on the border, but a procedure,” stated the Christian Democrat at a gathering with former refugees. “That’s how I understood European law.”

The assembly was organized and filmed by the WDR. From the present “10 years after: refugees in conversation with Angela Merkel” the ARD “Morgenmagazin” already confirmed excerpts.

Similar to Merkel, the Berlin Administrative Court, which in a particular case of three from Poland Somalier, declared their rejection of their rejection on the first practice station behind the border. However, the Interior Ministry of Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) sees this as a particular person determination and sticks to apply.

Freely affirmed authorities view

Chancellor’s head Thorsten Frei (CDU) confirmed the federal government’s view within the “Morgenmagazin”. “First of all, there is something else in Article 16a of the Basic Law, also in Paragraph 18 of the Asylum Act. And according to the matter, you also have to say: If someone has already received asylum somewhere in Europe, if someone has come to us through safe countries in Europe, then of course we have no one who is on the run, but then we have to do it with people who come from safe countries.”

Merkel warned in opposition to being pushed by the AfD in migration coverage. “I cannot always only talk about the AfD and take on its agenda. But I also have to take up the agenda of all those who say: Yes, we have to reduce the number of illegal migration, but we still have to represent our values.”

Merkel for enforcement of rejections

At the identical time, the previous chancellor made it clear that rejections of asylum purposes and deportations needed to be enforced. If somebody could not keep, “then the German state must be able to find a solution for it and, when it comes, to return to the home country”. Because why there’s recognition procedures if everybody simply stays. “It’s hard, but we have to enforce that.” She additionally thinks it’s proper that if somebody has turn out to be legal, additionally, you will take him again to Afghanistan.

Freely, Merkel additionally defended the sentence “We do this” from the 2015 refugee disaster. “If a head of government says” We can do one thing “, that’s a right attitude. Because that can be demanded from a government that she does not put her head in the sand, but deals with the challenges,” he stated within the “Morgenmagazin”.

“But of course the times have changed,” stated Frei. “In 2019, we already put collectively a big migration bundle within the reign of Angela Merkel, the place there was additionally a return of enchancment regulation.