Switzerland is considering closing down several nursing centers

The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has confirmed a message with this content published by the newspaper Aragguer Zeitung. It will also be considered if refused asylum seekers can be expelled more efficiently, and if the search for other locations for new federal asylum centres needs to be continued, albinfo.ch broadcasts.

Currently, federal asylum centres are in charge of more than 4,000 beds, while at the end of June, fewer than half of them were exploited. Meanwhile, federation plans envision the growth of this capacity of up to 5,000 beds.

Regarding further performance in this direction, the minister, who covers the sector, Karin Keller-Sutter, will decide in September, conveys albinfo.ch. As of then, measures to speed up asylum processing will also be considered, the SEM says.

In Switzerland at the peak time of the refugee crisis, there were about 40,000 registered asylum applications in 2015, while in 2018 there were only 15,000 sosh