Gottfried
Curio
State
of Law: Corona and Migration
AfD
Kompakt, April 9, 2020
[Gottfried
Curio is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin. He is a physicist and musician and is the AfD’s Bundestag spokesman for
interior policy.]
The
state of law ought not to be put into Corona quarantine. That asylum applicants
could no longer be allowed legal counsel is a fully unjustified finding. That,
based on this, asylum applications will now no longer be rejected is a mockery.
Since then there will be a double standard and so shall not citizens who are no
longer able to legally appeal, say, fines or GEZ [public broadcasting]
contributions just so be exempted from these?
As
soon as this new practice of the BAMF [migration office] makes the rounds,
together with the news that the German borders are, as before, open to asylum
applicants, a new pull factor will originate: It is understood to be
contemporaneous with the increased number of migrants – indeed also from
neighboring European countries; since Germany with its well developed
healthcare system is certainly, in the time of Corona, an especially attractive
goal of migration.
The
securing of state sovereignty, that is to say, a control over whom may stay in
Germany, will apparently, even in the time of Corona, not be classified as
system relevant by the Interior Ministry. Ja,
false course corrections in the government’s asylum policy will not only be
perpetuated during the Corona crisis but foreseeably will be made uncorrectable.
To the practices of allowing, without legal basis, entry from secure third
states and the chain toleration of rejected asylum applicants is now added that
obviously unfounded applications nevertheless will for now be accepted, with the
prospect of then simply acquiring legality by prescriptive right.
With
the Corona crisis, the securing of the border and a thrifty budgeting of
financial and material resources really take on an acute urgency. If Germany is
soon to be the last country still open, it will become the last remaining goal
of poverty migration. The correct consequences must now be drawn: Closure of
foreign borders and the limitation of asylum applications to those persecuted
in Germany’s immediate neighbors.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
