Saxony's Interior Minister is calling for stricter asylum laws and a quota system

Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster is calling for stricter asylum laws. “The reception capacity in cities and communities must be the benchmark for the extent to which Germany will grant asylum in the future,” says a four-point plan. In general, the CDU politician wants to replace the individual right to asylum with a quota solution in the future. The editorial network Germany (RND) first reported on the plan; it is also available to the German Press Agency.

In order to make it easier to deport criminals, Schuster is pushing for a change to the European Convention on Human Rights. In the future, the country's security interests must be given greater weight than the criminals' interest in staying, the paper says. In addition, it is demanded that rejected asylum seekers can be taken into custody in the future in order to enforce their departure. To achieve this, immigration law must enable “impulsive detention” to emigrate.

“In order to fully complete the migration transition, we have to get people who are obliged to leave the country to leave the country first, and first the delinquents and those who do not integrate,” explains Schuster.

Last year, the President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf), Hans-Eckhard Sommer, suggested replacing individual asylum checks with humanitarian admissions via quotas. In addition to humanitarian aspects, the ability of the labor market to integrate could also play a role here. He emphasized that this was his “personal assessment” and that he was not speaking as Bamf President. At the time, Schuster welcomed the initiative as a “very constructive contribution to the debate” and argued that Germany could introduce a “flexible upper limit” with a humanitarian quota system.