It takes more protection against those seeking protection

Switzerland is doing a lot of things in asylum policy. The procedures are short, returns work better than in other European countries, applications from people with low prospects for refugee status are handled in a hurry. Beat Jans rightly referred to these and other positive aspects in Helvetian refugee beings at the extraordinary sessions in the National and State Council.

However, there are several problems. The communities and cantons can hardly find any living space for the refugees. And some of them burden the population, police and judiciary with crime. It is a minority among those seeking protection. Compared to the constant resident population, they are overrepresented in police crime statistics.

So hardly a week goes by in which police communiqués do not appear from the asylum area, Sometimes there are even minor serial offenders. The judiciary are bound by the judiciary. Often the delinquents have to be released shortly after their arrest – in order to break again. An incident from early February caused nationwide outrage in the Appenzeller railways. A Afghan, who was already a criminal offense due to simple bodily harm, struck a pensioner as if out of nowhere.

Such incidents contribute to the fact that the SVP intensification suggestions in parliament find a majority that would have failed up to a few years ago. Asylum Minister Beat Jans (SP) even criticized the SP Councilor Daniel Jositsch that he played down the problem. One did not have to be surprised that the judicial department is faced with tons of advances.

Among other things, the national and state council have decided to restrict the freedom of movement of criminal asylum seekers and to exclude them from asylum procedures. Federal Councilor Jans is right if he points out that the federal court could collect these rules. So that this question does not arise at all, his department is required: it must show constitutional paths how the population can be better protected against criminal protection seekers. If this fails, the acceptance of the asylum system is undermined.