Asylum numbers in Upper Lusatia: a decline in consequences!
Asylum numbers in Upper Lusatia: a decline in consequences!
What's up in Upper Lusatia? In the past few months, the situation around asylum seekers in Saxony, especially in the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz, has changed significantly. The figures show a clear decline in the incoming asylum seekers, which the State Directorate of Saxony (LDS) also confirms. This is a result of the border controls introduced from October 2023 in Germany, which have left noticeable effects in many places. According to Sächsische.de still lived in January 2022 asylum in the Saxon Admission facilities, while there are currently only 1,957.
The decline can also be seen in concrete figures for the individual counties: at the end of May 2025, 1,368 asylum seekers and tolerated people lived in the district of Bautzen, while in the district of Görlitz there were 1,356. These values are lower than at the beginning of the year. No new allocations are planned for June in June. One of the main reasons for the decline are the recognition of asylum applications that lead to people extinguishing from statistics, while 74 Syrian asylum seekers also left the region in December 2024.
accommodation situation
What about the accommodation of the asylum seekers? Most of these are housed in shared accommodation and decentralized in apartments. Several hundred places are empty in both counties, which means that there is actually room. However, the district of Bautzen has already closed the Asylum Home in Dutch and plans to dissolve the Spree hotel in autumn 2025. The community accommodation Boxberg in the Görlitz district is also to be closed and sold in April/May 2026. Another asylum home in Wehrsdorf has already been closed for hygienic reasons.
The reasons for these closures are unmistakable: The district of Görlitz is not planning to expand the places in the asylum accommodation in Niesky, since the declining trend of the number of asylum seekers has stabilized. A significant decline in the decentralized accommodation rate in Saxony is also determined, in Bautzen it is only 20.17%, which means the bottom lights in Saxony, while the Erzgebirgskreis is still a bright spot, such as the information of the Saxon refugee council show.
political attitudes and perspectives
There are also different views of the future handling of the asylum theme. The CDU in the district of Görlitz calls for an uniform distribution of asylum seekers and support for their integration into the labor market, while the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is striving for faster integration measures and a limitation of the accommodation figures to one percent of the total population. The Greens rely on the support of the accommodation concept with a focus on integration, while the FDP calls for decentralized accommodation and quickly deportations of rejected asylum seekers. On the other hand, the AfD wants to reintroduce the central accommodation and calls for work from asylum seekers in return. The left, on the other hand, sees the low number of asylum seekers an opportunity for integration and advocates language learning programs.For those who want to follow the numbers and statistics in the background, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) Some interesting trends. While the deportations rose again in the first quarter of 2024, attention must also be paid to the social situation of asylum seekers: in 2023, 8 documented suicides were recorded among refugees, which is alarming and indicates the pressing challenges in front of which many of these people are facing.
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