2024-09-02 12:29:14
Harsh words from the FDP youth organization: Juli leader Brandmann warns the SPD and the Greens not to block changes in migration policy. What exactly she has in mind.
After the terrorist attack in Solingen, the Young Liberals (Julis) are increasing the pressure on the SPD and the Greens to support fundamental changes in migration policy. In a letter that Juli leader Franziska Brandmann wrote to the more than 15,000 members of the FDP youth organization, she states: “If the SPD and the Greens are not prepared to turn the current migration policy on its head, then they are not capable of governing in the current situation.” In the past, the SPD and the Greens have traditionally stood for a migration-friendly policy. SPD leader Saskia Esken recently said that “not much can be learned” from the terrorist attack in Solingen.
At the same time, Brandmann also warned CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who has had a strong influence on the debate in recent days with numerous statements: “If the Union is not prepared to accept its shared responsibility for its government actions in the federal states and concentrates solely on calling for demands at the federal level that it does not implement in the states itself, then it is producing nothing but hot air.” Brandmann’s letter is available to t-online.
Specifically, she envisions a “new realpolitik in migration policy” that would require the fight against Islamist terror to become the “focus of political action.” “Environmental crime, economic crime, etc.: without question, all important. But the fact is: a clear focus is needed now,” she writes. The priorities of the public prosecutors’ offices must be reviewed and adjusted everywhere in view of the Islamist threat.
In addition, deportations must be implemented consistently: “Our authorities are so reliably unreliable that they are becoming a pull factor for illegal migration. That must change immediately.” She is therefore calling for a “round table of municipalities, federal states and the federal government.” “Everyone who has responsibility is now called upon to re-prioritize resources and put an end to this state failure.”
Finally, Brandmann supports the proposal of Christian Dürr, the head of the FDP parliamentary group: asylum seekers who are required to leave the country and those who have been rejected should no longer receive social benefits. The idea is also supported by FDP leader Christian Lindner and FDP interior politician Konstantin Kuhle.
Brandmann warns: “Anyone who does not contribute to decisively changing our migration policy in the current situation with concrete, implementable solutions is contributing to the daily decline in the acceptance and viability of our asylum law.”
Following the attack in Solingen, numerous politicians have made a number of very different proposals in recent days to adapt both gun laws and asylum laws. The fight against Islamism is also being widely discussed.
On Wednesday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and opposition leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) met to discuss this. During the meeting, Merz suggested to the Chancellor a joint reorientation of migration policy – if necessary without the traffic light partners Greens and FDP, which was tantamount to calling for a coalition break. A clear yes or no from Scholz is still pending.
FDP leader Christian Lindner, on the other hand, was open to Merz’s proposals. He told the “Bild” newspaper: “The FDP is prepared to make cross-party efforts to consistently enforce new realism in migration at the federal and state levels. Mr Merz’s proposals on migration closely coincide with those of the FDP.”