migration
Number of deportations increased significantly
More than 6000 people had to leave Germany in the first annual quarter. The old federal government was still responsible for this – the Union wants to take over much harder.
In the first three months, 6151 people were deported from Germany, including 1118 minors. This emerges from the left of the Left in the Bundestag, which was available to the Editorial Network Germany on Friday. This would be upgraded to the whole year more than 24,000 deportations – and therefore significantly more than in previous years.
In 2024, a total of around 20,000 people were deported from Germany, in 2023 there were around 16,500 deportations. However, the number could increase even more this year than suggested the figures of the first quarter: the deportations in the first months of the year were still the responsibility of the old federal government. CDU and CSU in particular have announced that they will carry out more returns than before.
Many deportations to Turkey
Most were deported to Georgia, France, Spain, Serbia and Turkey. The number of deportations to Turkey has doubled compared to 2022. 157 people were deported to Iraq, five in Iran. Around 1700 of the deportations are so-called “Dublin Transfer” to other European countries who are responsible for the asylum procedure according to the Dublin Ordinance.
The Dublin Agreement on how to deal with asylum seekers in the European Union stipulates that refugees have to apply for asylum in the EU country by entering the first European soil.
Frontex is largely covered by return flight costs from Germany
According to the report, a little more than a third of the deportations took place with costly charter flights. Collective deportations to Pakistan were particularly expensive and elaborate. The costs for this amounted to 462,000 euros. The cost of deportation fees to Ethiopia amounted to 418,000 euros, more after Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. For many of these flights, however, the European Border Protection Agency Frontex bore the costs.
Left-wing MP Clara Bünger criticized the authorities’ approach. She is aware of “several deportations” in which the police “brutally and without any empathy”. “We speak of families being torn apart or that sick people were really kidnapped from the hospital and were carted from there to the deportation freight,” Bünger told the RND.
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Source: Stern
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