Germany’s left-globalist activist interior minister Nancy Faeser is working to significantly dilute the meaning of German citizenship by way of a new draft law that, if adopted by the federal Bundestag, would greatly relax rules around obtaining a passport.
Experts say that more than two million migrants, including a large portion of illegal immigrants who have been flowing into the country since 2015, could become ‘Germans’ overnight, if the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s proposed reforms to the Citizenship Act are implemented, the Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit reports.
Under the new reforms, children born in Germany whose parents have legally resided in the country for a least five years will automatically become citizens, which means that all of the children of Middle Eastern migrants who traveled to Germany during the migrant crisis of 2015-2016 will soon have citizenship.
Additionally, the new reforms will give migrants the right to naturalize after five to three years instead of the previous eight. Under the new reform, the law that required those seeking to be naturalized as German citizens to give up their previous citizenship to obtain a German passport will be abolished. This means millions of ‘new Germans’ will have dual citizenship.
Faeser, who previously wrote for an Antifa magazine managed by an organization with links to far-Left extremism, also wants foreigners aged 67 and above to no longer be required to pass a written language test to obtain citizenship. The mandatory knowledge test about Germany will also be abolished for this group. Additionally, those of all ages who are unable to read and write in German will not have to pass a written language test in order to acquire a German passport.
The cabinet will discuss Faeser’s proposal before Christmas, according to internal documents from the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Faeser’s plan has been met with strong disapproval from the German right-of-center opposition.
“The government apparently wants to destroy the German passport. Soon everyone should get it. Foreigners in Germany are thus deprived of a great incentive to integrate. This can become a major threat to the cohesion of our society,” Andrea Lindholz, a lawmaker for the CSU, said.
“The German passport should not become a ramshackle product,” CDU lawmaker Thorsten Frei told the tabloid newspaper BILD.
Martin Hess, the domestic policy spokesman of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) also slammed Faeser’s proposals, writing on Twitter: “Anyone who wants to become a part of our population must master our language, accept our laws, and must stand behind our free way of life. Our passport must not end up on the rummage table of the traffic light coalition.”
Earlier this month, Deputy Chairman of Germany’s Federal Police Union Manuel Ostermann accused Faeser of concealing migration data that would have revealed a massive influx of illegal migrants into German territory, as The European Conservative previously reported.
