Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster continues to insist that asylum seekers be turned back at the border if they enter via safe third countries. The CDU politician explained that this is the only way to achieve an entry level of significantly less than 100,000 migrants per year nationwide. This was urgently needed in order to relieve the burden on local authorities and maintain their ability to integrate migrants. Schuster made his comments on the occasion of the introduction of stationary border controls in Saxony a year ago.
In Europe, the Dublin Regulation stipulates that another EU country is responsible for an asylum seeker if they have applied for protection there or entered the country first. Deportation must take place within six months. This period can only be extended in exceptional cases. After that, the asylum seeker becomes the responsibility of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Schuster had already emphasized in the past that the Dublin system for distributing asylum seekers in Europe was not working. Therefore, extended options for refoulement must be used.
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