There was an interesting to come from the President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) yesterday. The guy (Hans-Eckhard Sommer) says Germany ought to replace individual asylum rights (currently in place for years and years)....with some type of humanitarian admission quota system.
Reason? He says presently....there's a fair amount of abuse.
Getting the CDU-CSU to accept this? Fairly easy. SPD....less so. For the Greens and Linke Party...massively unacceptable.
For at least ten years (during the Merkel era)....there was continually talk of a EU-quota system....forcing each EU member to accept the 'burden'....to relieve the stress of the anti-migrant efforts (AfD) in Germany.
If you put this to a national referendum? I suspect currently....roughly two-thirds of the public would agree to some type of quota-system, with limits. Constitution preventing this? To some degree.
Before 2013....how did the migration program work? If you start at 1990 (unified Germany)....there were generally around 150,000 to 200,000....with 2014 being the turbo year (450,000). From 1976 to 1987....Germany took in ethnic Germans (from Russia)....at around 550k to 600k. From the 1970s to 1980s....West Germany took in 40k asylum seekers per year (an exception in 1980, with Sri Lankans in the 70k brought in because of conflict).
Presently? Out of the 84-million residents of Germany...around 14-to-14.5-million are non-German (not holding citizenship....if you do the numbers....around 16-to-17-percent of the public). (Grok numbers)
Any possibility of this change occurring? No...I give it dismal odds.
But here's the thing....this is going to be discussed a great deal, and be a burden for the Green Party to stand up against in public forums.
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