Refugee policy in Germany: CDU wants 200,000 refugees per year and “transit zones”

At the migration summit with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), the Union called for asylum immigration of a maximum of 200,000 people per year.

Berlin - This emerges from the measures paper that the CDU chairman Friedrich Merz presented to the Chancellor and which the Rheinische Post (Saturday edition) reports on. It says: "Germany's absorption capacities are exhausted." What is needed is a "common understanding that Germany can tolerate asylum immigration of up to a maximum of 200,000 people per year with a view to the integration infrastructure and social cohesion."

In addition, the Union is calling for the establishment of “transit zones” and “return centers”. In "transit zones" an accelerated procedure must be carried out at the national borders for asylum seekers with little prospect of staying. “Rejected asylum seekers should then be accommodated in return centers based on the Danish model,” the paper says.

In addition, a social benefit level for rejected asylum seekers and people undergoing asylum must be created below the level of citizen's benefit, according to the Union. An extension of the waiting period for equality with those insured by statutory health insurance to at least 36 months is also necessary. In the three-page paper, the Union also calls for the latest border protection technology for the federal police.

"In particular night vision and thermal imaging cameras, drones, heartbeat sensors for checking trucks."

Source: Der Newsticker

Photo: dpa.