In the first six months of 2023, 7,861 people were deported from Germany, which is a 27% increase compared to the same period last year. Most of the deportees are 705 citizens of Georgia, 665 citizens of North Macedonia, and 659 citizens of Afghanistan. Deutsche Welle reports.
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1,664 of the deportees are women, and 1,375 are minors.
The number of people who left the country voluntarily increased, with 4,892 receiving federal funding to repatriate, and 2,309 receiving state or local funding.
According to the law, those whose asylum applications have been rejected, and whose visas or residence permits have expired, must leave Germany. Immigration authorities must deport them unless there are mitigating factors such as illness or other grounds for temporary suspension.
According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the first half of the year, 520 deportation attempts failed due to the resistance of the deportees and the refusal of the pilots or airlines.
By the end of June, there were 279,098 people in Germany who could not be granted asylum, although almost 225,000 of them had the right to defer.
According to Klara Bünger, spokeswoman for migration policy of the left-wing party in the Bundestag, increased deportations too often force people to return to places where they face war, extreme poverty, and hopelessness.
German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser wants to tighten deportation rules. Earlier this month, she introduced a draft document that would give police more powers to enforce deportations.
The EU is also working on reforms to the asylum system, which include changes to deportation rules.
