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Switzerland declares a freeze on admission for ‘refugees’
More and more countries are readjusting their asylum and immigration policies under the current onslaught of asylum seekers. Switzerland is now also pulling the emergency brake and does not want to take in any more “refugees”. A “temporary freeze on admissions”, it is said from Bern, is necessary because capacities are exhausted.
Published: December 24, 2022, 5:11 am
Specifically, this means that Switzerland is suspending its participation in the United Nations refugee program. After the arrival of thousands of refugees from Ukraine, the reception capacities are currently exhausted, said the spokesman for the State Secretariat for Migration, Lukas Rieder. The Swiss are now showing the stop sign to migrants from other countries. This also affects “refugees who are particularly in need of protection” selected by the UN.
“The program is not in question, only the recordings are temporarily suspended,” it said. There is “high pressure” on the Swiss asylum system, especially with regard to the number of accommodations and staff.
The Swiss admission numbers are quite manageable – the Confederates (8,7 million inhabitants) wanted to take in a total of 1820 refugees in need of protection by 2023. By mid-December, 641 people had been accommodated as part of the program, and another 400 would be admitted by March 2023, according to Bern. Everyone else would have to wait for now.
Since the beginning of the year, a total of 100 000 migrants have applied for asylum in Switzerland, including 70 000 war refugees from Ukraine.
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