Pro Asyl Accuses Union Parties of “Radicalization” and Populist Election Campaign
The refugee organization Pro Asyl has accused the Union parties of “radicalization” and a populist election campaign in their pursuit of a tougher asylum and migration policy.
“It is extremely alarming that the Union parties, in their demands, often disregard human and fundamental rights to win over voters from right-wing parties” said Pro Asyl’s legal expert, Wiebke Judith, to the Funke Media Group’s newspapers (Monday editions). We are witnessing an erosion of fundamental principles like the rule of law, human dignity, and human rights, which democratic parties should actually stand for.
Judith’s statement was in response to the new migration debate, which the CSU will fuel with a “Security Plan” for the Bundestag election campaign. The party’s paper, which is to be decided at a Monday beginning closed-door meeting, reaffirms the demand for a general rejection of asylum seekers at German borders.
However, this would be a violation of international and European law, as explained by asylum law expert Judith. Even if another EU country is responsible, it must be clarified in a legally established process, known as the Dublin procedure. “European law makes very clear provisions. CDU and CSU just want to break them.”
It is also unacceptable to link the right to stay for those entitled to it to a substantial property. “From the Geneva Refugee Convention, the right to social welfare treatment for refugees follows. The Federal Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence is clear: human dignity is not migration policy-relativized.” Therefore, it is not possible to deny shelter or social benefits to refugees.
Judith called the demand for the abolition of subsidiary protection “eye-washing.” The affected individuals fall under the prohibition of deportation, which arises from the European human rights convention. “They usually receive protection because they are threatened with torture in their home country. The human rights convention allows such deportations not.” Therefore, it makes no sense to deny these people any protection status. It is also unconstitutional if the CSU now wants to put foreign criminals in indefinite detention after serving their original sentence.
The CSU’s state group will decide on a so-called “Security Plan” in a Monday beginning closed-door meeting, which includes a hard course correction in migration policy and a harder line also in internal security. The paper, reported by the Funke newspapers, includes general rejections at German borders, linking the right to stay to a substantial income, abolishing subsidiary protection, and in certain cases, indefinite detention. Some of the demands are also anchored in the joint election program of CDU and CSU. At the beginning of the year, the CDU’s leadership also demanded further hardening of migration law again.