Planned Tightening of Asylum Law: Dehumanisation by Law
Conservatives (CDU) and social democrats (SPD) again plan to tighten asylum law. Katja Kipping, chair of the party DIE LINKE: The motion on refugees policy, which will be negotiated on Thursday at the refugees summit of federal state and Lands and agreed upon on 15th October by federal parliament and council is dehumanisation by law. She declares further:
CDU, SPD and CSU treat people without a “real” passport like second-class humans. Deporting, punishing, sealing off – the cruel triad of black-red refugees policy runs through the complete regulation package. Even some changes to the original draft cannot soften it.
DIE LINKE opposes an extension of the obligation to live in communal accommodation, the residential obligation and work prohibitions. We also decidedly oppose the classification in allegedly good and bad refugees, unannounced deportations as legal target and the restriction of humane decisions of the hardship case committee. The supposedly secure countries of origin are anything but safe – thus for example Romani are systematically racially persecuted in some countries.
Black-red did not understand that people coming to us can also be a gain for our society. The regulation package contains massive tightenings leading to a ban on education for young refugees and the endangerment of a child’s wellbeing because of them constantly being kept to the asylum home. Tolerated refugees any educational measures beyond compulsory schooling shall be forbidden if they come from a “safe country of origin”. Young people then had to leave vocational schools, trainings, high schools and universities.
The federal state may not pass on responsibility to the Lands and municipalities and needs to bear all costs for admission and integration of refugees. SPD and CDU now have to make clear, how much they really care about the much conjured solidarity with people in need. I explicitly warn black-red to play off refugees against the citizens of the country – it is high time to demonstrate social justice for everybody. The money is available. In Germany, eventually corporations and the super rich need to be fairly taxed. Ten percent of the Germans own 60 percent of the whole netto wealth. That’s where the money has to come from. Instead of resting on the humanity of so many volunteers, the social democrats and conservatives should finally include humaneness in their political programme.