In public, almost all the voices to be heard from the media and political parties are those that support the government or call on it to enact even tougher laws.
For example, Sahra Wagenknecht criticises the Interior Minister from the right. The BSW chairwoman writes: “For years, Interior Minister Faeser has slowed down the fight against uncontrolled migration … Her failures are being paid for by citizens, local authorities and the police every day.” According to Wagenknecht, in the evenings, train stations “have become no-go areas, especially for women.”
The mainstream media (not only the tabloid Bild) carry reports almost daily on “foreign criminals,” “integration refuseniks” and the “failure of the asylum system,” etc.
In this heated atmosphere, observers from charities Diakonie and Caritas at Frankfurt Airport have reported an increasing number of truly brutal deportations. People are taken to the flights without the barest of necessities, “in slippers and flip-flops,” and often handcuffed. In most cases, those affected have had no opportunity to pack or withdraw money from their accounts beforehand.
One terrible example is the deportation of 18-year-old Aysu on September 12 from Hesse, where she could have started training as a nursing assistant. She was deported to Azerbaijan, where she has no family or friends. This happened completely unexpectedly for her foster family.
While the daily life of the population is becoming increasingly insecure in terms of work, family and finances, the coalition government’s “security package” is playing into the hands of growing fascism and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose programme of “remigration” it is effectively adopting.
This can only be understood in the context of the current attacks on wages and jobs. The railways, public services and car industry (most recently at VW) are cutting jobs, closing plants, privatising and cutting wages, while the costs of the pro-war policy are exacerbating the situation. This is provoking explosive class struggles. That is why the government is striving for more “security” in an almost panicked manner—not for working people, but for the ruling class and the capitalist state.
The foreign policy of the bourgeois politicians shows what they are capable of. All the establishment parties, from the coalition government and the opposition, support Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In Ukraine, they are arming the Zelensky regime, which openly relies on fascists.
Faeser’s idea of “security” was demonstrated this week in Poland: she visited the border with Belarus, which is guarded by metres-high border fences, barbed wire, an electronic surveillance system and heavily armed security guards, where she suggested that EU Frontex forces should also be deployed in the future.
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