The interior ministers of Germany's 16 federal states on Thursday held an emergency conference call to discuss the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers in Germany, which is expected to reach 450,000 this year, according to dpa. The ministers spoke with the president of the Federal Office of Migration, Manfred Schmidt, in an effort to find accomodation solutions for those arriving in Germany and to speed up asylum bids to determine which migrants can be deported. The interior ministers' discussion is part of an increasingly heated migration debate that has cleaved Germany's political landscape.