Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Gottfried Curio, May 11, 2023, Immigration and Politics

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/103, pp. 12394-12395.

Right honorable President. Ladies and gentlemen.

The Ampel grandly announced in the coalition contract a repatriation offensive, yet for which certainly the thereto belonging FDP announcements party did not deliver. The number of deportations is far less than even before the pandemic. There is simply no migration agreement for the return of rejected asylum applicants. The show agreement with India does not function. In regards over 800 Indians without a pass who in Sachsen-Anhalt are liable for repatriation, nothing happens. Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco – generally nothing. The theme of “Dublin Repatriations in other EU Countries”: It in the last year failed by far over 90 percent.   

What does the standstill coalition do? They set up new incentives for additional migration and secondary migration to Germany: Extension of social benefits, extended rights to remain, an abolition of revocation checking. This naturally intensifies already existing repatriation problems. SPD Interior Minister Faeser positions herself against even the EU with her rejection of a visa lever against uncooperative states of origin; actually just as needed as the reduction of development aid. There lacks any political will for enforcement – similarly as in regards the acknowledgment of the Maghreb states as secure states of origin – blocked by the governing party of the Greens, supported by the FDP. Toss out those who sustain the government! Its time as well is past, for the people have noted how the dangerous fanaticism of this eco-dictatorship sect in its deterioration coalition squashes the citizens’ interests.

The Union’s answer: A mix of right and wrong. Naturally, it is right to take over the AfD’s years-long demands. How reliable that is, each can judge when you previously rejected these same demands made by the AfD. But, ja, it requires the repatriations offensive, bilateral return agreements. Only how the FDP announcements party speaks of that does not suffice. Naturally, the EU visa lever needs to be on the table, those considered a danger and obliged to depart, and criminals, need to be deported. Certainly the same is required for Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Somalia. In any case, it’s a good idea to agree with the AfD demands, ladies and gentlemen.   

Certainly the actual deportation policy in the Union’s 16 years in government unfortunately indicates no essentially different picture from that of today’s government. When you announce to shortly again form a coalition with exactly these Ampel parties against which these ostensibly oppositional demands should be directed, then the voters note that and, in case of doubt, prefer to vote for the original.  

Certainly then no one needs what is further in your motion: To financially strengthen the promotion of voluntary returns by means of counseling centers in foreign countries. Financially promoted voluntary departures scarcely work; some again re-enter. From the net asylum application benefits, money is sent home. This needs to be converted to benefits in kind, as for long demanded by the AfD. Only thus will one of the most important incentive factors be finally eliminated. The migration change, ladies and gentlemen, comes only with the AfD.

Simply summarized: That which in your motion is good and right, is from the AfD; what is not from it, is not good.

Ladies and gentlemen, a majority of Germans want that finally fewer migrants be admitted. A majority say: The current admissions policy brings primarily disadvantages for Germany. Other countries simply make policy for their own citizens. Denmark self-evidently permits judicial deportations to Syria, just as does Hungary. Yet it happens here with us in Germany, to where one million Syrians from foreign countries could suddenly be brought, to indeed be left here at the cost of our working people, there are just no negotiations on a migration agreement – which the Union also does not want.  

In that regard, the civil war there is long since at an end – not in the Union, but in Syria. Here is finally required a policy primarily in the interests of German citizens. That is only with the AfD. We therefore say to you, ladies and gentlemen: It’s not the heating that needs to be exchanged, but this government!

I thank you.

 

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