Confederation wants to tackle specific asylum problems in Ticino
Published: Tuesday, Feb 20th 2024, 15:40
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In addition to the nationwide measures, Justice Minister Beat Jans has promised Ticino additional help to overcome the problems in the asylum system. The situation there has been challenging for some time.
"I know that the situation in Ticino is very tense for the population and employees," Jans told the media in Chiasso TI on Tuesday. He had previously held talks with the cantonal and local authorities.
According to Jans, a key problem is that the population in the southern canton no longer feels safe. The police have had to deploy hundreds of times due to incidents in and around asylum centers.
In future, asylum seekers in the region will therefore be given a better daily structure. For example, the number of full-time positions for the organization and supervision of employment programmes and charitable work has been increased. According to Jans, asylum seekers should take on work outside the asylum centers that no one else can do.
Jans wants to take a closer look at unaccompanied minor asylum seekers (Umas). A pilot project to educate 16 and 17-year-old unaccompanied minors will start in the 2024/2025 school year.
Almost 400 asylum seekers in Ticino
Meanwhile, cantonal and local authorities were already calling for a security concept for the local communities in early summer 2023. Jans said that such a concept was in the works. According to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), security patrols have also been increased both inside and outside the Chiasso and Pasture asylum centers in recent months.
A total of 390 asylum seekers are currently housed in the two asylum centers in Ticino. The additional temporary asylum accommodation at the train station in Chiasso, which was opened due to the Ukraine crisis, was closed at the end of 2023. This reduced the current number of asylum seekers housed in southern Switzerland. The temporary facility had been criticized for some time. Originally, the federal government wanted to continue operating it until mid-2024. The city of Chiasso rejected this.
In order to relieve the pressure on the locations in southern Ticino, the federal government and the canton are holding talks about alternative locations for accommodating asylum seekers in the canton of Ticino, as Jans explained.
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