In principle, people tolerated in Germany are threatened with deportation – there are many reasons why this does not happen. Sometimes the relevant identification documents are simply missing.
The country of origin is unknown for almost every tenth person who is obliged to leave the country and whose application for asylum in Berlin has been rejected. This emerges from a response from the federal government to a request from the left-wing faction, which the German Press Agency has received. According to the information, almost 18 percent of the total of around 21,654 people who are obliged to leave the capital come from Moldova.
The 2020 people with unclear identity recorded in the Central Register of Foreigners who live in Berlin form the second largest group at around 9.3 percent, followed by people from Iraq and those from the Russian Federation and Georgia who are obliged to leave the country. A comparably high proportion of people with unclear origins is not to be found in any other federal state.
Nationwide 304,308 people who are obliged to leave the country
In Bavaria, most of those required to leave the country in 2022 came from Iraq, in Brandenburg almost every fourth person required to leave the country came from the Russian Federation, and in Baden-Württemberg, people from Gambia formed the largest group among those required to leave the country.
According to the federal government, a total of 304,308 foreigners were required to leave the country as of December 31, 2022, the majority of whom (248,145 people) had a so-called toleration. Tolerated persons remain obliged to leave the country, but may stay temporarily because they cannot be deported, for example because they have no identity documents or are ill.
Last year, 26,545 people who were required to leave Germany left Germany voluntarily. 12,945 people were deported. As the Federal Government further reported, around half (6348) of these deportations were carried out unaccompanied.
Security forces from target countries help out
Security forces from the target countries were present when 340 people were deported – a variant that was used more frequently, especially in the case of deportations to Algeria. Accompanied by security forces from an airline, 1,637 deportations took place.
“Deportations and deportations are clearly increasing again,” Clara Bünger (left), member of the Bundestag, commented on the figures. All too often, this has resulted in people being forced back, under the threat or use of force, to places where they were at risk of war, torture, arbitrary detention, extreme poverty or lack of prospects.
Source: Stern
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