Asylum-seekers on the federal asylum centre in Chiasso, southern Switzerland
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The Swiss authorities desires to increase the 24-hour fast-track process for asylum-seekers from North African international locations to all federal asylum centres.
These international locations have a really low recognition charge for asylum functions. A corresponding pilot mission has been working in Zurich since autumn 2023.
Since then, the variety of asylum-seekers from Maghreb international locations has fallen by round 34%. The justice ministry confirmed to the Swiss Information Company Keystone-SDA an article printed by Tamedia newspapers on Saturday. In different federal asylum centres, nevertheless, the quantity has risen by an excellent 8% in the identical interval.
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In response to the article, the authorities in Zurich seen that asylum-seekers had been staying for brief durations at weekends. The folks left earlier than their asylum software had been formally registered, as some didn’t seem to need an asylum process in any respect. For useful resource causes, persons are not registered at weekends.
“In lots of circumstances, it’s clearly a matter of getting lodging for the weekend,” the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) is quoted as saying within the newspapers. In response to the SEM, three to 4 folks from Maghreb international locations have utilized for asylum on the federal asylum centre in Zurich in the course of the week in latest months.
Weekend phenomenon
It’s noticeable that on some weekends an above-average variety of folks register on the federal asylum centre in Zurich, for instance on weekends with Sunday gross sales, throughout carnival or the Avenue Parade.
“Sadly, a few of them stand out as a consequence of their delinquent behaviour,” the SEM is quoted as saying. For this reason Justice Minister Beat Jans now desires to increase the 24-hour process for asylum-seekers from Maghreb international locations to all federal asylum centres.
These are the six centres with a procedural perform in Zurich, Bern, Boudry, Altstätten, Chiasso and Basel. In response to the SEM, it isn’t recognized the place the folks might be staying earlier than and after the weekend.
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