BERLIN, June 6 (Xinhua) -- German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Friday proposed suspending family reunification for refugees with limited protection status, which has drawn sharp ...

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Migration has been a contentious issue in Germany, the third largest refugee-hosting country in the world, with 2.5 million refugees, including more than one million refugees from Ukraine.

Ryyan Alshebl, center, at the May Day festival in Ostelsheim, Germany. A Syrian refugee who arrived in 2015, he is the town’s new mayor. Credit... Ingmar Nolting for The New York Times.

Around 270,000 new asylum applications are expected in 2024. Most asylum applications are rejected. At the end of 2023, there were only around 44,000 recognized asylum seekers living in Germany.

Refugee camps are designed for the short term: to meet an emergency need and then disappear. ... Germany nearly 800,000, and the European Union 160,000, there are 58 million more displaced people ...

Germany's parliament has just voted to put a hold on family reunifications for refugees without full asylum status—a move that’s part of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's push to tighten immigration rules.

After the start of World War II, the French government used those same camps to intern foreign Jews who had escaped Hitler’s Germany, detaining them as enemy aliens.