“The existing policy of automatically bringing to Europe all people rescued in the Mediterranean must be broken,” Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) urged in an internal paper seen by the Rheinische Post daily.
“This is the only way to stop organized crime on the Mediterranean,” the document asserts. It also calls for enhanced cooperation with North African countries to persuade them to take back the migrants.
The paper comes less than two weeks after a terrorist attack in Berlin, in which Tunisian national Anis Amri rammed a truck into a Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48.
The suspect, believed to be inspired by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) reportedly came to Europe via Italy, and was subject to deportation at least twice. Amri’s case has once again sparked heated debate in Germany, with many criticizing Chancellor Merkel’s ‘open-door’ refugee policy.
The CSU has long criticized the government’s approach towards immigration, which has allowed about 1.1 million refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere into Germany since 2015. Worried about losing popular support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the CSU championed a number of measures to stem the flow of migrants into the country.
In the Thursday paper, the Bavarian conservative party suggested that people coming to Germany across the border should only be allowed in if their identities can be proven. “Whoever does not submit a passport or cannot prove his or her identity must be stopped short at the German borders and placed in transit centers until the identity is clarified,” the memo added......https://on.rt.com/7z5t
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29/12/16
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