Germany: Bavaria Passes New Asylum Plan

About 50 migrants and their supporters protested against deportation in the eastern German town of Apolda on Saturday, 2 December, 2017. The movement "The Voice" from Jena called the demonstration to protest against among other things against the deportation from Germany and for a better accommodation for refugees. Photo Credit: Osaren Igbinoba/The Voice Forum

The asylum plan of Horst Seehofer met with criticism in many states, Bavaria is now implementing it. Among other things, the reform provides for the establishment of anchor centers.

Bavaria's government has adopted the new asylum plan. The Cabinet unanimously voted in favour of the introduction of the reform, which will be implemented from August. The asylum plan is intended to fundamentally change the course of the asylum procedure and to pursue a much more restrictive immigration policy. Bavaria wants rejected asylum seekers in the future, if necessary, with their own charter planes deport to their homes.

"We want to show that our constitutional state works and thus can be a role model in Germany," said Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) after the Cabinet meeting. Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann wants to present the plan to his counterparts from the other federal states at their conference in Quedlinburg, which will start on Wednesday.

Just over four months before the state elections in Bavaria, the CSU government is thus focusing its asylum policy. In addition to deportation flights with specially trained police, which the state of Bavaria wants to carry out independently, the concept also provides for the establishment of seven so-called anchor centers for asylum seekers in the state. The state government wants to speed up asylum procedures. In Bavaria, there should then be no more cash benefits for asylum seekers, but only in-kind benefits.

The seven anchor centres, in which asylum seekers are to go through the entire asylum procedure in the future, should not be rebuilt. Rather, already existing facilities are to be rededicated accordingly, but not to be enlarged: namely Manching, Bamberg, Schweinfurt, Zirndorf, Regensburg, Deggendorf and Donauwörth.

Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants to set up such anchor centres nationwide. But the majority of federal states are still resisting the plans.


(ZEIT ONLINE)



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