Merkel gets tough on migrants: Chancellor deports RECORD 80,000 asylum seekers in ONE YEAR

Lynsey_ADMIN_

ANGELA Merkel is getting tough on immigration after deporting a record 80,000 failed asylum seekers last year, new figures show.

Germany has taken in more than a million migrants in the past 18 months – with many from warn-torn Syria and Iraq.

But the open-door policy has come under intense criticism following a string of horrific ISIS attacks in the country.

Now her chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, has stressed Merkel is adopting a more hand-line stance on failed asylum seekers.

He said: "We sent home 80,000 last year whose asylum applications were rejected. That's a record – and the number will rise again further.

"There were some 700,000 asylum applications in 2016 and nearly 300,000 were rejected. 

"We'll be sending these people home quickly because if we don't it'll damage our credibility as a state based on the rule of law."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/769396/Angela-Merkel-Germany-migrant-crisis-refugees-deported

Lynsey_ADMIN_

Merkel: Europe Must Take More Migrants

Angela Merkel claims that the European Union still has a “responsibility” to take in more so-called refugees, and pleaded to Islamic governments to help convince people that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam.

The 62-year-old German chancellor began her speech by acknowledging that “the European Union right now is in a very difficult situation due to the result of the British referendum … which is very regrettable”.

While calling on the bloc “to do more to integrate our military capacity”, she also confessed it could not fight terrorism without U.S. president Donald Trump’s assistance.

“Let me address this very openly. The Europeans alone could not cope with fighting international Islamist terrorism. We need the strength and the power of the United States of America, and their support,” she said.

“I say this because the external borders of the European Union, in a way, are the border that actually separates us from Islamist terrorism, and that very much has an influence on Europe.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/18/merkel-europe-must-take-more-migrants-and-islam-is-not-the-cause-of-terrorism/

Lynsey_ADMIN_

she is treating the migrant influx like her personal pick & mix 

Lynsey_ADMIN_

Meanwhile.. 

2k+ failed asylum seekers in Vienna still get social benefits as they cannot be deported - report

More than 2,000 migrants living in the Austrian capital, Vienna, cannot be deported despite falling short of being granted asylum - mainly due to the lack of proper ID documents - while still receiving monthly payments, an Austrian daily has reported.

Out of 20,000 migrants that receive social benefits in Vienna, only about two thirds either have been granted asylum or have their asylum requests under consideration, the Austrian Kurier has uncovered. The rest are residing in the Austrian capital on the so called "tolerated stay" scheme.

As of November last year, 6,165 migrants were living in Vienna and are receiving social benefits because they cannot be deported from Austria, despite not being granted official refugee status, the daily reports, describing the situation as “the sucking out effect.”

The figure, according to the publication, has been confirmed by the Interior Ministry. Authorities, however, refused to officially comment on the matter.

Some of these migrants, the publication explains, cannot be deported because an individual is either without proper ID documents or the country of origin refused to accept them. 

https://www.rt.com/news/374647-austria-migrants-social-benefits/

Lynsey_ADMIN_

How come Germany can deport record numbers year on year, when other European countries have such trouble trying to deport even the criminals?

Matt_ADMIN_

It feels strange that countries like Germany and America import and export so many people at the same time; it seems counterproductive to me

Lynsey_ADMIN_

Germany proposes ‘energizing’ deportations from EU during mass refugee influx – leaked doc

Berlin has reportedly suggested that the EU relax some human rights provisions on refugees to deport more asylum seekers at times of a “mass influx.”

A working paper proposed by German officials is meant to accelerate deportation of new arrivals in case of a renewed influx of refugees to the European Union, according to Reuters which has seen the document. 

“This is another element in efforts to energize readmission of people to wherever they came from,” a Brussels-based diplomat was cited by the news agency.

According to EU human rights laws, economic migrants may be sent back at any time, but asylum seekers awaiting processing of their applications can only be deported to specific countries declared “safe.” Such countries must safeguard returnees from threat or persecution; provide humane reception conditions, as well as at least partial access to healthcare, education and employment.

Some parts of the current EU provisions “clearly exceed” the necessary minimum set out in the Geneva Convention on Refugees and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, the German proposal said. While not specifying parts of the refugee legislation that might be abandoned, it adds that deporting refugees en masse would still be ruled out.

https://www.rt.com/news/378231-germany-eu-refugee-deportation/

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