Refugees: Kretschmer is again calling for an upper limit on migration

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Kretschmer is again calling for an upper limit on migration

Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer is calling for benefits for people who are obliged to leave the country to be reduced. photo

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Thousands of boat migrants on Lampedusa, increasing numbers in Germany – many states and municipalities are warning of overload. So did Saxony’s Prime Minister Kretschmer.

Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer has repeatedly spoken out in favor of an upper limit on immigration. A change in migration is necessary, said the CDU politician in an interview with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (Monday). “For this you have to talk about a number. How many people can we take in, can we integrate?” He did not rule out another change to the Basic Law. Kretschmer also said that benefits for people who are required to leave the country would have to be reduced. “These payments must be reduced, also to increase the pressure to leave the country.”

The CDU politician also accused the federal government of not taking proposals from the recent Prime Minister’s Conference seriously. Decisions made at the meeting on Thursday and Friday were ignored. “It’s not a smart political style to wait until you’re really at the wall and it can’t go any further. That’s an accusation that you have to make to the federal government,” said the Prime Minister.

Decisions of the states

In a resolution, the federal states had, among other things, called for effective measures to speed up asylum procedures, stationary border controls at the borders with the Czech Republic and Poland and a nationwide uniform payment card for asylum seekers instead of payments in cash.

After the Prime Minister’s Conference, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) explored possibilities for agreement on the issue on Friday in the Chancellery with Prime Ministers Boris Rhein (Hesse, CDU), Stephan Weil (Lower Saxony, SPD) and, for the first time, with CDU leader Friedrich Merz. All sides then called the two-hour deliberations constructive – even if there were no concrete results. Concrete solutions should be found by a meeting of all heads of government with Scholz in Berlin on November 6th.

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