Overview
- The SPD’s Migration and Diversity working group and a Green party working group released a joint paper urging Bundestag and Bundesrat to reject the government’s GEAS implementation, calling it inhuman and partly unlawful.
- The paper accuses the government of using the reform to impose detention-like restrictions on many asylum seekers, potentially including minors.
- SPD parliamentary leaders pushed back on the paper’s invocation of the Shoah, with chief whip Dirk Wiese calling the comparison misplaced.
- SPD lawmakers Helge Lindh and Rasha Nasr said the document is not an official Bundestag position and reported no formal SPD–Green coordination, framing the debate as part of normal parliamentary scrutiny.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt’s cabinet-approved draft goes beyond EU rules by expanding accelerated airport procedures, enabling ‘secondary migration centres’ with movement limits, and allowing safe-country listings by ordinance, as SPD figure Aziz Bozkurt warned of wavering support within the party.