Germany’s left-globalist interior minister, who previously wrote for a far-left Antifa magazine with links to extremism, has called for the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), which operates under the direction of her ministry, to significantly curtail security checks of asylum seekers, placing her at cross purposes with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Under the guise of speeding up the asylum process, Nancy Faeser is looking to overhaul—and severely constrain—the current process of due diligence the state carries out when it decides whether or not a newly arrived migrant should be granted asylum status, an email from BAMF sent to Interior Minister Faeser obtained by the newspaper BILD has revealed.
Under Faeser’s new plan, passportless migrants looking to obtain asylum status will not be required to undergo mobile phone checks to verify their nationality, and less information regarding an applicant’s migration route will be obtained via the Schengen information system. Additionally, information on the applicant’s level of education and dialect, the latter of which can indicate the true origin of asylum seekers, will no longer be collected.
“The BAMF, in coordination with the Federal Ministry of the Interior, is implementing measures to speed up asylum procedures,” the email reads. These are “temporary measures” that should “apply until further notice.”
Faeser’s move to “process” migrants’ asylum applications more quickly, which inevitably will act as a pull factor that encourages more illegal migration, comes at a time when Chancellor Olaf Scholz is looking for new ways to combat illegal migration to stem the rising popularity of the conservative, anti-mass-migration AfD party.
Days ago, the chancellor, along with the heads of Germany’s sixteen states, agreed to adopt stricter measures, including lowering hurdles that prevent the deportation of illegal migrations, to make the country a less attractive destination for would-be illegal migrants.
In October, the number of first-time asylum seekers in Germany reached 31,887, the highest number recorded since the 2016 migrant crisis. The last time the number of first-time asylum applications was higher was in September of 2016, at more than 70,000, a spokesperson for BAMF said on Wednesday, November 8th.
BAMF director Hans-Eckhard Sommer, in a letter sent to Faeser, says the crisis is even more grim than the official numbers have revealed. “These numbers do not reflect actual access to asylum,” Sommer wrote, adding: “The states now have a significant backlog of registrations, so we actually had to deal with around 50,000 entries in September and around 55,000 in October.”
He described the situation as “extremely critical” and emphasized that the “resources and positions provided are in no way sufficient.”
