SVP wants Switzerland to reject asylum seekers

The tightened border regime of Germany ensures violent reactions in Switzerland. While the police explained what was actually changing, there was a pronunciation between Beat Jans and the German Interior Minister on Thursday.

It was not a phone call that countermeasures usually lead when they exchange ideas for the first time. Rather, Federal Councilor Beat Jans is likely to have spent his opinion on the German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt quite bluntly on Thursday afternoon.

On Wednesday, barely in office, he tightened the border controls. Asylum seekers would also be rejected, Dobrindt announced.

Germany has caught Switzerland with the arrangement. The Swiss authorities had not been informed in advance. Federal Councilor Beat Jans delivered a letter to Dobrindt the day before and asked to exchange ideas, as Ch Media learned- after all, the new government had announced that it would immediately act when it comes to asylum and migration policy. But the letter from Bern remained unanswered.

When the announcement came, Jans’ department made his anger and lack of understanding in X air. Systematic rejections at the border are against applicable law from the perspective of Switzerland. « Switzerland regrets that Germany has taken these measures without consultation. »

But what do these measures mean in concrete terms?

There are exception for pregnant women, the sick and women with children

The Federal Police Directorate Stuttgart informed at the Weil am Rhein border crossing on Thursday. So far, asylum seekers have been referred to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Freiburg for so -called state recording. There they could apply for asylum. That has now changed.

The Federal Police now begins asylum seekers without any valid entry documents, rejects it to the outsourcing area or pushes them back after entry, provided they come from a safe third country. In Germany, all Member States of the European Union and Switzerland are currently considered a safe third countries.

There is only an exception for vulnerable people, including women with small children, heavily pregnant women or “visibly seriously ill people”.

Border commuters should hardly be affected

« Border protection is the same, only the signs are new, » says Friedrich Blaschke, spokesman for the Federal Police Weil am Rhein. From the perspective of the federal police, the new procedure is legally unproblematic. In the sight of her, she has young, unaccompanied men with little luggage. One would see that they have been traveling for days or weeks.

SVP demands that Switzerland follow up

While Federal Councilor Jans sharply criticized the tightened border regime, the SVP welcomes the step of the neighbor. In a communiqué, the party writes about a « completely plausible » decision in Germany. Jans did not recognize the signs of the times, says the Thurgau National Councilor Pascal Schmid.

The SVP demands that Switzerland also attract the screws and rejects asylum seekers who enter a safe third country. The party submitted two corresponding advances to the National and State Council at the end of last year. The National Council narrowly rejected the claim from right, the Council of States clearly.

Now you are checking to bring the demand back into parliament, says Schmid. The rejection of asylum seekers at the border does not correspond to the usual procedure according to Schengen-Dublin Agreement that Switzerland signed. « But tens of states have not stayed with that for a long time, » he says with reference to Italy and France, among others. «We have an exceptional situation. Why should Switzerland not reject asylum migrants on the southern border if Italy simply refuses to take back the Dublin process? If we are the only way to stick to the contract text like model students, we are the stupid. »

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