Monday, July 21, 2025

Martin Hess, June 4, 2025, Asylum, Remigration, CDU

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/9, pp. 711-712. 

Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. 

Our asylum system in its present practice is not only dysfunctional, it has developed into a massive danger and led to a catastrophic security situation in our country. Ever more citizens are ever more often attacked by so-called asylum seekers and seriously wounded or indeed killed. He who actually has at heart the security of our country, he can and may no longer accept this, and needs now to act decisively. We therefore bring in this motion [Drucksache 21/318] today. 

As of reference date April 30, 2025, over 224,000 persons obliged to depart live in Germany; of  these, around 42,000 are obliged to depart immediately; there is neither a factual nor a legal reason which would prevent a deportation. Despite this, in the first quarter of 2025, merely 6,151 persons were deported from Germany. That is just 15 percent of all the immediately dischargeable persons obliged to depart. That is a completely unacceptable failure of the state, and that needs to be most quickly corrected. For these numbers stand not only for systematic and bureaucratic failures, they stand primarily for tangible, human suffering which the old parties would have been able to and needed to prevent. 

So as to avoid misunderstandings: Not all of those obliged to depart are dangerous. Yet it is also true: For a much too large number of these people, it is about perpetrators, violent criminals and dangerous Islamists or terrorists. 

Filiz Polat (Green): That’s not right! They are children and youths! That’s simply not right! 0.001 percent! That is straightaway wrong! 

And thus the toleration of these hundreds of thousands of violations of the law and the failures in regards the deportation of these persons is an unpardonable defect which has ever more frequent deadly consequences. 

I want to recall to you two cases: May 31, 2024, Mannheim. An Afghan Islamist at a demonstration cuts the Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger. The police officer Rouven Laur, 29 years old, wanting to assist, intervenes and is thereby brutally murdered with a knife. 

            Filiz Polat (Green): Speak of Michèle Kiesewetter!

He leaves behind family, friends, colleagues, who to this day cannot understand why this murderer was still in Germany. – January 22, 2025, Aschaffenburg. An Afghan obliged to depart attacks a kindergarten group with a knife. Two people, one of whom a two years old child, die. The parents will never again see their child laugh, they will never again be able to take their child in their arms. 

These victims are not single instances. They are the result of the political indifference of all of the old parties. Each of these crimes was avoidable. Had you taken our statute seriously, had you consistently implemented deportations, had you consistently protected our borders, and had not let loose these violent criminals in our places, in our streets, or on our children, then would these people still live. Therefore must now finally be large-scale deportations. Who misuses our guest right, who murders, who rapes, who hates our freedom, he has no right to remain in our country. Remigration makes security, remigration saves lives, right honorable ladies and gentlemen. 

Dear colleagues of the Union, the AfD delegation at the beginning of this year voted for a five-point program brought in by you for a limitation of migration. The therein contained measures were indeed in large part copied from us, yet they were thus suitable. Therefore, it also received our support. This motion thus obtained a majority in this house; nevertheless, as good as nothing of it has so far been implemented. A goal, among others, was to be able to much more frequently apply custodial departure deportation [Ausreisegewahrsamund Abschiebehaft]. And precisely that we demand with our motion today. I thus appeal to the Union: If you seriously mean it with your migration change, then please leave off these party-tactic little games and support our motion. Let us finally take care for the security which we owe to the people of our country. If you do not do this – it remains left to you – then you break for an additional time an election  promise and, for that, the citizens of our country will not pardon you. 

 

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