FAMILY REUNIFICATIONS
Berlin resumes family reunifications for some refugees
Berlin — Germany on Wednesday resumed family reunifications for some refugees, drawing the ire of leftist groups who said a cap of 1,000 people a month was too little, while at the same time a far-right party is opposed to immigration altogether. The government in 2016 suspended the right to bring in immediate family members for asylum seekers granted limited protection in a move to ease the burden on social workers handling an influx of 1-million migrants. The ban did not apply to asylum applicants granted full refugee status as they have a constitutional right to invite their families to join them. After big losses to an anti-immigrant party in an election in 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) junior coalition partner agreed on a compromise to partially lift the ban from August 1 2018. "The new rule allows us to achieve a balance between our society’s integration capacity, humanity and security," arch-conservative Interior Minister Horst...
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