German asylum policy: the Only Pooh hui, then?

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A long time Germany was considered a model for its refugee policy. With Chancellor Merkel, the country basked in the glow of the welcoming culture. Terrorism and failed Integration changed the. Now it’s a matter of Deport.

“We can do this.” – No other sentence out of the mouth of Angela Merkel has given rise to many political Controversies, such as the commitment of the German Chancellor that Germany could meet the challenges of the refugee crisis, and I will. The one praised you for it profusely, others criticized them loudly. A small, aggressive minority of the extreme Right: you showered with hate comments, and verbal outbursts of anger.

International Merkel became with this set the respected refugee Chancellor, the ummünzte Germany’s increased political importance in an open asylum policy. Praise also came from Pope Francis, as well as Barack Obama.

Numerous pictures from the summer of 2015, the new German “culture of welcome”: There were volunteers, and served until the exhaustion of the refugees with food and clothing. Since the radiant with joy with the waving Germany flags thanked were the Refugees to see. As with the summer of the 2006 football world Cup fairy-tale Germany was again open to the world and people-friendly. And there was a Considerable body of work: In less than three years, the country took in over 1.5 million Fugitive.

September 2015: A variety of volunteers receiving refugees at the train station in Munich, with food and clothing.

The culture of welcome is at the end of

However, the euphoria has given way to the disillusionment on all sides. Meanwhile, a skeptical tone dominates the debate on Migration and immigration. The terrorist attacks in Würzburg, Ansbach and, most recently, of Berlin, have made internal security a key topic of the election. The foreclosure of the Balkan route, the internal political foreclosure debate followed.

But also among the Refugees themselves, and disappointment became widespread. Lack of language course offerings, possibilities for family reunification and a slow access to the labour market as some integration effort in vain. A few Thousand even use the programs for voluntary return.

It was initially talked a lot about the opportunities of Migration, dominated the question now is, how rejected asylum seekers as quickly as possible sent back. Right-wing populist movements that have made with nationalist us anti-refugee slogans mood, fuelled this debate and drove the government parties. The rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is closely linked to your hard-line stance against Islam and refugees.

For Günter Burkhardt, managing Director of the human rights organization Pro asylum, there is no longer Merkel’s welcome policy: “The summer of welcome, a long-lasting Winter, followed up in these summer months.” Most visible was a sign that the Federal office for Migration and refugees (BAMF), be processed under massive pressure from the Federal government, applications for asylum in the chord method, says Burkhardt, in the DW-Interview. “It’s no longer the single escape fate, but you used text modules – and you used them incorrectly.”

This picture went around the world: Chancellor Merkel makes a Selfie with a young Syrian refugee

The case, Franco A., and its consequences

The accusation: The quirks have System and would be aware of in purchase to produce as quickly as possible as many letters of Rejection. In a “Memorandum for the fair and thorough asylum procedure in Germany” had made a number of well-known human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Caritas, and Pro ASYL in November 2016 on these procedural deficiencies to the attention of.

This is to happen a little, also revealed in the case, Franco A., the weaknesses of the asylum procedure, relentlessly open: The German army soldier had been arrested at the end of April because of terrorist suspicion. Particularly explosive was that Franco had A. issued by the BAMF as Syrian asylum seekers, where it is ascribed to him in fact the status of refugees. The German spoke no Arabic, was not noticed to the appropriate employees.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière ordered then medium-term inspections for a total of 80,000 to 100,000 asylum procedure. Immediately after the scandal of 2,000 suspected cases were immediately checked – in to systematic misconduct. De Maizière said that among the 2,000 cases examined, there had been no comparable incident. However, procedural defects had been disclosed – and in particular in the documentation.

More removals, less right-wing populists?

In the DW-Interview with lawyer Victor Pfaff, who represents for over 30 years, asylum seekers in hearings that it was more than just a few flaws in Documentation complains. “If, for example, a Hearer in a Turkey-thing must be the name of the PKK leader Öcalan to spell and don’t know who Abdullah Ocalan, then you must cancel the hearing,” says Pfaff.

A Demonstration against deportations to Afghanistan. Currently, the back are exposed to guides. Just how long?

In addition to the acceleration of the process of language acquisition software will be used, without that the protocols would be reviewed on reasonableness and corrected. “So protocols are developed, which are sometimes totally incomprehensible,” says the lawyer. Another Trick of the authorities, asylum applications by min-year until Reaching the age of majority. Then the asylum seekers would be rejected with reference to the fact that they could after their return, now self-provide for their needs, writes Pfaff.

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Hard line: the end of a “welcome culture”?

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Hard line: the end of a “welcome culture”?

A glance at the statistics shows that the worsening of asylum practice has shown effects. The high number of rejected asylum applications has increased in the first five months of 2017, more easily Alone, until the end of may, more than 107,000 asylum applications were rejected, including of 32,000 applications from Afghans. For the full year of 2016, the BAMF said around 260,000 rejections.

Although deportations to Afghanistan have been suspended for the time being, as a direct response to a series of deadly attacks in the beginning of June. Günter Burkhardt, head of Pro ASYL is, however, convinced that the government will soon begin again as soon as possible with repayments -even for domestic political reasons: “This has more to do with that right-wing populists want to cut the water, but nothing to do with the security situation in Afghanistan.”

Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière to resist such representations speak on a regular basis. In an Interview with the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”, he said: “If deportation occurs, then this is nothing other than the enforcement of existing laws, and no malice of the state.” Noted The sentence “We can do this, however, remains:.” has a good two years after the peak of the refugee crisis is a completely different sound.