Draft law adopted: German government wants to implement more consistently

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This provides, among other things, that the maximum duration of so-called exit detention will be extended from the current 10 to 28 days. In addition, expanded powers for the authorities and stricter measures against smugglers are planned. With the law, which has yet to be adopted by the Bundestag, the federal government wants to reduce the number of failed deportations in the short term.

According to the draft for the so-called Return Improvement Act, government employees should also be able to enter third-party rooms in shared accommodations when searching for deportees.

In addition, under certain circumstances, evictions would no longer have to be announced. Members of criminal organizations should be able to be deported more easily in the future. Apartments must be searchable for data carriers and documents to clarify the identity and nationality of those affected.

To reduce the burden on the authorities, residence in Germany during the asylum procedure should be approved for six months instead of the current three months. Other groups should also be able to stay longer.

According to information from the federal government to the Left faction, there were a total of 7,861 deportations from Germany between January and June this year. According to information from last year, there were 6,198 deportations in the same period last year.

On June 30, a total of 279,098 people in Germany had to leave the country. Most of them (224,768) were tolerated and cannot be deported. Reasons for this may be illness or a lack of papers.

With her bill, Faeser wants to ensure that deportations are carried out more consistently on the German side. However, the willingness to cooperate is often lacking in the countries of origin. In Germany, the current decision is also seen as a response to the poor opinion polls of the ‘traffic light parties’ (SPD, FDP, Greens) and the strengthening of the right-wing populist AfD.

The plans of both the Christian Democrats and refugee associations were criticized, albeit for different reasons. The CDU/CSU faction’s domestic policy spokesman, Alexander Throm, welcomed the removal of obstacles to deportations. But he noted: “What is crucial is slowing the rampant flow of asylum migration.” Unauthorized entries into Germany and Europe must be reduced.

Wiebke Judith from Pro Asyl criticized the German government for sacrificing the rights of those affected to the “right-wing populist discourse”. “Stricter deportation rules are unlikely to result in significantly more people being deported.”

But criticism also came from the ranks of the traffic light coalition: Jamila Schäfer from the Green Party faction told the news portal “t-online”: “We should not pretend that the solution to migration policy lies primarily in deportations, because most people cannot be deported because they come from war zones such as Ukraine, Syria or Afghanistan.

Even before the cabinet decision, Chancellor Olaf Scholz asked in a letter to CDU/CSU faction leader Friedrich Merz to seek support for the legislative package from the CDU-led states and his parliamentary group so that it could be adopted this year.

“The problem can actually only be solved by working closely – with our European partners and all federal levels in our country,” says the letter, dated Monday. It is important to him that the legislative package at the federal state summit on November 6 leads to concrete agreements on regulating migration.

With the letter, Scholz responded last Friday to a letter from CDU chairman Merz, in which he proposed a “small, equal negotiating group consisting of representatives of your government and my group” on irregular migration. Scholz did not specifically address this idea, but was generally willing to have further discussions with Merz. A first meeting with representatives of the countries took place two weeks ago in the chancellery.

(SDA)

Source: Blick