OPINIONS. Thuringian district administrator Peggy Greiser has strongly criticized the federal government’s migration policy. “It is a catastrophe if people have to experience fear in their workplace and asylum seekers seeking help here in Germany make other people’s lives hell,” said the non-partisan district administrator in Schmalkalden-Meiningen. to the magazine Focus. “Hard punishments, rapid deportations and entry bans” are the only solution.
The district administrator is especially annoyed by Minister Faeser of the Interior
When asked whether politicians such as Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (both SPD) or Vice President of the Bundestag Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) should travel through Thuringia on a normal train, the district administrator said: “ A few rides on certain regional In Germany would really do some federal and state politicians some good.”
Greiser feels particularly offended by Faeser. In January, her district identified specific local problems in a document, proposed solutions and sent the letter to the Ministry of the Interior. The demands include “effective control of illegal migration”, “effective and functioning return strategies” and the “drastic reduction of benefits for asylum seekers who are obliged to leave the country”.
After no response for a long time, the ministry sent a pointless response letter with examples of the federal government’s supposedly excellent work. “Little to nothing actually happened,” Greiser grumbled. Those in charge in Berlin must “finally listen to the local community – and these are the district administrators and mayors who experience first-hand every day what is going wrong in this country.” (i.e)