Rejected asylum seekers should be returned more quickly. This is what the coalition of the CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) has demanded. This year's figures show that more people have been deported from Germany.
Germany has significantly increased the number of deportations of refugees without a residence permit this year. From January to September, 17,651 people were deported. In the same period last year, this number was 14,706, an increase of around a fifth. The figures come in response to a question from the Left Party in the Bundestag, as reported by the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" and the dpa news agency.
Criticism from the Left Party
Most of the people were deported to Turkey (1,614) and Georgia (1,379). Almost one in five deportees (3,095) was a child or teenager. Left Party insider Clara Bünger sharply criticized the deportations. "When it comes to increasing the number of deportations, the authorities hardly have any taboos," she told the German newspaper. "Mass deportations to a country like Turkey, which suppresses leftists, Kurds and members of the opposition? Apparently, that is not a problem in the current political conditions in Germany."
Deportations soon to Afghanistan as well?
The German government plans to deport Afghan criminals to their homeland soon. According to Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, negotiations between Germany and the Islamist Taliban regarding deportations to Afghanistan are nearing completion. Talks towards an agreement are very advanced, Dobrindt emphasized.
The possibilities for repatriations are being considered not only by charter flights, but also by scheduled flights. Contacts with the Taliban are controversial, as the German government officially does not maintain diplomatic relations with the Islamists, who have returned to power in Afghanistan since August 2021. The Taliban are internationally isolated due to their violations of human rights, especially women's rights./ DW
