Deportations
All the news about deportations.
Nearly 50 percent of planned migrant deportations are aborted: report
In the first three months of 2018, nearly every second planned migrant deportation was aborted, the Funke Mediengruppe reported on Thursday.
The ‘asylum industry’ debate: who is profiting from the refugee crisis?
A senior member of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) sparked a heated discussion this week when he claimed that Germany has an “anti-deportation industry.” Did he have a point?
Migrant deportations often hit the wrong people, Merkel ally warns
After a large group of migrants aggressively tried to prevent the deportation of a Togolese man this week, right-wing politicians called for mass deportations. But a senior Christian Democrat (CDU) figure said on Friday that deportations can have a bad impact on families.
Fewer refugee deportations and departures in Germany this year: survey
For most of Germany’s federal states, fewer refugees have been deported and have voluntarily left the country this year compared to in 2016.
No, German pilots aren’t defying their government by refusing to deport asylum seekers
On Wednesday UK publication the Independent picked up a story in the German press about pilots refusing to take rejected asylum seekers back to Afghanistan. These rare decisions have nothing to do with the asylum process, though.
14 Afghans expelled from Germany amid angry protests over safety
Germany expelled 14 rejected Afghan asylum seekers, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, amid angry protests that the war-ravaged country is unsafe for returnees.
Germany deports third group of Afghan migrants to Kabul
Eighteen Afghans deported from Germany arrived in Kabul Thursday after their asylum pleas were rejected, the third group to be sent back in recent months as Berlin speeds up the expulsions.
Refugee rights groups criticize plans for faster deportations
Federal and state governments want to significantly expand and accelerate deportations of rejected asylum seekers, but human rights organizations oppose the plans.
German states delay Afghan deportations due to security fears: report
Several German states are reportedly halting or considering halting deportations of failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan due to the worsening security situation, according to German media reports on Monday.
Germany begins controversial collective deportations to Afghanistan
On Thursday morning a flight carrying 34 rejected asylum seekers arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul. They were the first people to leave Germany in a highly contested programme of "collective deportations" to the war-torn country.
Morocco to speed up repatriation of illegal migrants
Morocco has agreed to streamline the procedures for the repatriation of citizens living illegally in Germany, the royal court said late on Thursday.
Greens scupper plan to block migrants from North Africa
Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday delayed a decision on labelling three North African nations as "safe countries of origin", after the Greens torpedoed the move aimed at curbing the influx of migrants.
Deportations rise sharply in Germany: report
Germany deported 60 percent more migrants last year than in 2014, the government said on Wednesday, with figures from January and February showing that the pace of repatriations further accelerating.
Kosovo PM's brother sought asylum in Germany
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said Sunday his brother had sought asylum in Germany, after joining the mass migrant influx into the European Union last year.
We’ll take back rejected refugees, Morocco tells Berlin
Morocco assured Berlin on Monday that it will take back people who’ve had their asylum cases rejected after recent frustration from the German side.
Germany blasts countries that won't take back migrants
The German government has sent angry letters to the 17 countries most reluctant to take back their nationals who’ve had asylum applications rejected in Germany.
Germany orders one-year-old girl to leave within a week
A mess up in government bureaucracy led the government to inform a 20-month-old asylum seeker she had a week to leave the country - while the rest of her family seemed to be allowed to stay.
Far-right party accidentally call to 'deport Germans first'
Germany’s far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) shot themselves in the foot while campaigning for elections in western Germany, apparently calling for Germans to be deported from the country en masse.
Stop refugees or we'll stop aid, Germany tells Afghans
Germany's Interior Minister told Afghanistan on Tuesday that Germany’s security support to the country would only continue if the influx of Afghan refugees to Germany stopped.