North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein want to encourage the traffic light government in the federal government to adopt a tougher migration policy through a joint initiative in the state chamber.
Two motions for resolutions call for additional measures such as accelerated asylum procedures for applicants from countries of origin with a recognition rate of less than five percent, asylum procedures at the EU’s external borders and accelerated transfers of so-called Dublin cases to other EU states. Criminals from Afghanistan and Syria should be deported “immediately, using all necessary options for this,” it says. The resolution on security measures also calls for event-related access to traffic data and a new regulation of radio cell query.
A number of measures are being rejected by the Greens in the federal government – but are now being demanded by the Greens in the black-green state governments of North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and the Green-led government in Baden-Württemberg.
On Friday, the state of Hesse will also present a draft law on the storage of IP addresses, which is expected to receive a majority of the 16 federal states. In the federal government, the FDP in particular has so far rejected this storage, which the SPD has also called for.
On Thursday, North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst called for a “centre alliance” to “not only limit but also end” irregular migration with more decisive measures. The elections in the East German states with high AfD results and the fatal knife attack in Solingen, in which three people died, were a “double turning point” for German politics. Migration and security are central to maintaining the basic trust of people in Germany. The basis of the three-state initiative is an extensive security package that the NRW state government had previously decided on.