Joint analysis and strategy center for illegal migration

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The German Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Illegal Migration (GASIM) is a permanent, cross-agency information and cooperation center with the aim of intensifying cooperation in the fight against illegal migration .

founding

The GASIM emerged in May 2006 from the Joint Analysis and Strategy Center Smuggling Crime (GASS) and is intended to enable a holistic fight against the phenomenon of illegal migration.

Joint Analysis and Strategy Center Smuggling Crime (GASS)

In November 2004, following the visa affair, the Federal Ministry of the Interior set up a joint analysis and strategy center for human smuggling of the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police with the participation of the Federal Customs Administration (financial control of illegal employment). The tasks of the GASS included, among other things, the improvement of the national and international exchange of knowledge, the operative and strategic evaluation of existing information as well as its connection with the knowledge of other authorities dealing with smuggling crime , the development of police and cross-authority control approaches, the provision of evaluation results for investigative procedures as well as the development of consulting approaches. The GASS investigated the problem of smuggling crime for the purpose of unauthorized work, in particular the so-called work contract procedure and the associated potential for abuse. The original focus of the GASS was expanded when it was expanded into the Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Illegal Migration (GASIM) and now includes the entire complex of illegal migration in GASIM.

organization

GASIM is a joint information and cooperation platform between the Foreign Office (AA), the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the Federal Police (BPOL) and the financial control of undeclared work (FKS) of the Federal Customs Administration . GASIM is not an independent authority or organization. It therefore does not have its own budget ; In the view of the Federal Government, a specific legal basis for the GASIM is not necessary.

After its founding, GASIM had 36 employees, at the end of 2006 33 employees and in 2007 a total of 40 people (including BMI: 2, BKA: 13, Federal Police: 14, BAMF: 6, BND: 1, FKS: 2, as well as personnel) worked there event-related AA: 2 and BfV: 1).

In 2009, the cooperation in GASIM was redesigned, the Federal Police represents GASIM externally, but has no specific mandate and no authority to issue instructions.

In July 2011, a total of 18 people were permanently working at GASIM. In relation to the sending authorities, the staff consisted of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (five), the Federal Criminal Police Office (two), the Federal Intelligence Service (one), the Federal Police (nine) and the financial control of illegal employment (one). The Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution are represented in GASIM on a case-by-case basis.

GASIM was initially based in the Treptowers in Berlin and moved to a location of the Federal Police Headquarters in Potsdam in August 2009 .

tasks

The tasks of the center are the collection of all available strategic knowledge in the field of illegal migration , their evaluation and analysis, the creation of situation reports, the perception of an early warning function and the international cooperation.

Since August 1, 2009, GASIM has no longer performed its tasks in forums, but in flexible, time-limited and project-related work units.

GASIM works on a strategic level with the following comparable bodies in other member states of the European Union:

  • Analysis Center for State Border Protection and Migration of the Czech Republic (ANACEN);
  • Analysis group for overall control of asylum and immigration in the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria (GAF);
  • Federal Advisory Platform on Illegal Migration of the Kingdom of Belgium (FIOM).

Data protection criticism and separation requirement

Since its inception, GASIM has been the subject of numerous small inquiries from the Bundestag to the Federal Government. In 2008, the television magazine Report Mainz charged that GASIM violated the separation requirement between police and intelligence services . Based on the statements of a whistleblower and an internal letter from the BKA, it was alleged that statutory provisions on data protection were being questioned, that further investigative steps were being planned with the police and that any individual operational issues were being processed in GASIM. The State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , August Hanning , then stated that the allegations presented were both technically and legally incorrect and without any basis. The exchange of information and data takes place on the basis of the respective area-specific legal regulations. Existing responsibilities and powers of the authorities involved would neither be touched nor changed. The requirement of separation between the police and intelligence services, which the authorities in GASIM also observe in full, is not a prohibition on cooperation.

In May 2009, Report Mainz reported on the findings of the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar from his inspection visit to GASIM in November 2008. He confirmed "a large number of very critical issues" during the exchange of personal data in Forum 4 and Forum 7. The data transmitted by the Federal Police to the BND are unlawful due to the lack of a legal basis and the transfer of data by the financial control of illegal work to the BND, the BKA, the protection of the constitution or the military counterintelligence is only permitted in individual cases on request, and the data has not been transmitted by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees to the BND have to. The federal government has not followed the legal assessment of the Federal Data Protection Commissioner .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Joint Analysis and Defense Center for Illegal Migration in Berlin-Treptow , answer (Drucksache 16/2432) to a small request from Bundestag members Ulla Jelpke , Sevim Dagdelen and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group , August 2006. (PDF file; 77 kB) .
  2. ↑ a b Measures to further improve the visa issuing procedure 2.3 Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Smuggling Crime (GASS), 2.4 Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Illegal Migration (GASIM), report to the German Bundestag, September 29, 2006 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Institutionalized cooperation between police and services Jan Wörlein, ak - analyze & kritik - newspaper for left-wing debate and practice / No. 532 / October 17, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b Visit to the Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Illegal Migration (GASIM) by Thomas Mischke, Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter , March 18, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b The requirement to separate the police and secret services and the joint analysis and defense center for illegal migration in Berlin-Treptow (PDF; 75 kB) Response of the federal government of August 18, 2006 (printed matter 16/2420) to the minor question from MP Ulla Jelpke , Sevim Dagdelen and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group. (Printed matter 16/2352).
  6. ↑ The Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Illegal Migration - State of Play 2007 (PDF; 121 kB) Response of the Federal Government of March 7, 2008 (printed matter 16/8482) to the minor question from MPs Josef Philip Winkler, Volker Beck (Cologne), Irmingard Schewe -Gerigk, another MP and the Alliance 90 / THE GREENS parliamentary group (printed matter 16/8238).
  7. ↑ Policy report 2009 of the German national contact point ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the European Migration Network (EMN) BAMF, February 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bamf.de
  8. ↑ a b c German Bundestag printed matter 17/6720 ; Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from MPs Memet Kilic, Josef Philip Winkler, Wolfgang Wieland, other MPs and the Alliance 90 / THE GREENS parliamentary group, August 2, 2011.
  9. ^ Center to Combat Smuggling Crime Peter Stützle, Deutsche Welle July 18, 2006.
  10. ↑ Authorities out of control - What is happening in Schäuble's flagship project "GASIM"? Daniel Hechler, Report Mainz of September 29, 2008 ( broadcast transcript ; RTF ; 29 kB).
  11. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Allegations against GASIM are completely unfounded ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BMI September 30, 2008.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmi.bund.de
  12. ↑ Schaar: Illegal data transmission in the GASIM Report Mainz , May 28, 2009
  13. ↑ BKA and BND work together against »illegal« migration: "When the BKA with the BND" by Till Grefe, Jungle World No. 28, July 9, 2009
  14. ↑ a b BT-Drs. 17/5200 : 23rd activity report for the years 2009/2010 (PDF, 2.6 MB), 7.1.5 Joint Analysis and Strategy Center for Illegal Migration (GASIM) - results of the data protection review. The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection, accessed on March 19, 2015.