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IIn the first year of the Crown crisis, deportations from Germany were cut by more than half. Only 10,800 of the around 281,000 foreigners required to leave the country could be deported in 2020, according to a response from the Federal Interior Ministry to a request from AfD internal politician Martin Hess. WELT has the role. In the previous year 2019 there were still 22,097 repatriations. The number of deportations has been decreasing since 2016, when it was 25,375.
According to the response of the Ministry of the Interior, in the last phase in 2020, significantly more deportation attempts were canceled than could be carried out: that is, 16,921 of the attempts already registered with the Federal Police were “canceled before execution”.
The reasons for this were “essentially that the respective competent state authority canceled the deportation or that the responsible states did not transfer it to the federal government.” In addition, “the returns had to be interrupted during the execution process because those who were to be returned resisted, appealed, missing travel documents or other reasons that made the return impossible,” according to the ministry.
The total of 10,800 deportations already includes transfers from Dublin within the Schengen area: 2,953 asylum seekers who traveled to Germany without permission were returned to the state responsible for them. The most important destination country was France with 712 transfers from Dublin.
According to the Interior Ministry WELT, there were only four transfers to Greece, the most important EU transit country in recent years, in 2020 and therefore even less than in the previous three years. And in the future, deportations will be even more difficult:
The Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster ruled on Tuesday that refugees who have already been recognized in Greece cannot be deported there because they run “the grave risk of inhuman and degrading treatment.” At this time, a “considerable number” of those entitled to protection are homeless there. It is also difficult to find work for refugees.
The decision was made in the case of two applicants from Eritrea and Syria who had received a title of protection in Greece. Therefore, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees rejected the asylum applications of the two applicants as inadmissible and threatened to deport them to Greece.
The administrative courts of Arnsberg and Düsseldorf dismissed two claims against this decision, after which the asylum seekers successfully went to the Higher Administrative Court. An appeal against the sentence was not allowed; however, an appeal can be made as a last resort, that is, to the Federal Administrative Court.
This step is currently being examined, as announced by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which depends on the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. The ruling is not binding on other higher administrative courts, but sends an important signal to them and to lower administrative courts.
“The judgment is equal to a request to treat people badly”
The Federal Ministry of the Interior also declared that it will adhere to the objective of “allowing transfers to Greece and effectively curbing these secondary movements. This requires an improvement in the living conditions of immigrants in Greece ”. The ministry is “working at various levels to improve the housing situation. In addition to the many support services that Germany is already making available to Greece ”, the ministry is“ in close contact with Greece and the European Commission on this issue ”.
Alexander Throm, chairman of the union in the Home Affairs Committee, criticizes: “The decision of the Higher Administrative Court has brought the entire Dublin system to the point of absurdity. The verdict means in plain language: Everyone who comes from Greece to Germany gets a German asylum procedure and remains under German jurisdiction ”. With this stipulation, “all efforts for a new EU asylum system would be torpedoed,” said the CDU politician. “The verdict amounts to asking Greece and other European countries to treat people badly so that they can go ahead without permission and cannot be returned.”
Already in autumn, WELT AM SONNTAG reported on the increase in the number of recognized Greek refugees reapplying for asylum in Germany. According to an internal report from the Joint Strategy and Analysis Center for Illegal Migration, “there has been a significant increase in secondary air movements from Greece to Germany since mid-June 2020.”
In addition to the crown measures that were relaxed in summer, the background is that the Greek government has been enforcing the regulation that came into force in January since June “according to which recognized refugees can no longer stay in their previous places of accommodation” . Also, “the Greek immigration authority issued more travel documents for refugees.”
The report notes that with their recognition, refugees simultaneously receive a residence permit that includes the right to travel within the Schengen area, which entitles them to legal entry through airports or land borders. According to internal assessments by Berlin security circles, another problematic phenomenon related to unauthorized migration from Greece has been apparent since late 2018.
Most important countries of origin: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Turkey
Some refugees recognized there fly to Germany, which is allowed for short stays of up to 90 days every six months depending on the current legal situation, and then apply for asylum under a false identity. They got rid of their Greek documents before arriving at the airport. According to security groups in Berlin, combating the problem is becoming even more difficult. The Eurodac records of recognized refugees in Greece who applied for asylum in Germany with a false identity were either deleted after recognition in Greece or were no longer visible to other EU countries. There are no official figures on the magnitude of this phenomenon.
What to say: Among the 103,000 first-time asylum applications made in Germany despite the Crown crisis in 2020, the most important countries of origin were Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Turkey, all nationalities, who They came mainly through Greece. .
